From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 13 8:47:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from speedracer.speedtoys.com (mail.speedtoys.com [66.80.10.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B77937B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (gemohler@localhost) by speedracer.speedtoys.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fBDH7BH54315; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:07:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:07:11 -0800 (PST) From: Geoff Mohler X-Sender: gemohler@speedracer.speedtoys.com To: Mike Silbersack Cc: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt didnt feel the fixes were primarily performance related, just bug fixes. On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > :I suppose while were on the topic.. > > : > > :Are there any hidden secrets to eeking out more performance from the BSD > > :NFS client (other than version types and the normal fstab tweaks). > > : > > :Im the CS Labs manager at NetApp..and Im always trying to store away a > > :secret here or there when someone comes to me with a problem in the field. > > : > > :FreeBSD since v2..rock on! > > > > For extreme performance there are some zero-copy patches floating around > > which have not been integrated into the main tree. Generally, though, > > your NFS performance is going to be ultimately limited by your server's > > disk performance. > > > > -Matt > > Matthew Dillon > > And if you hadn't heard, Matt just fixed a couple of bugs in the tcp stack > which improves NFS greatly. It sounds like after this round of NFS fixes, > the first answer to NFS questions should be: Upgrade to 4.5! > > Mike "Silby" Silbersack > > --- Geoff Mohler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message