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Date:      22 Feb 1996 17:58:07 GMT
From:      graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Linux/FreeBSD NFS performance.
Message-ID:  <4giarf$1u7@prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de>
References:  <199602221345.OAA00338@deimos.spase.nl>

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Kees Jan Koster (dutchman@spase.nl) wrote:
: Recently I replaced my the Linux partition on the box I use at SPaSE
: with a FreeBSD partition. Since everybody is always wining about Linux
: NFS performance I decided to try it out. I dragged a 20Mb file across
: the network via NFS, to and from a hp9000 NFS server. For good measure
: I threw in a sun, just to see the difference.
: Note that this test is in no way conclusive. It was during a normal working
: day, with about 20 other machines clobbering the net. Don't pin anyone
: down on the result.
: copying very_big_file (20.175.259 bytes) to and from NFS server spase5
:                                 machine -> server   server -> machine
: deimos   (i486DX2-66, linux):   654 s   30.8 kb/s   76 s   265.5 kb/s
: ariel    (pentium 100, linux):  646 s   31.2 kb/s   76 s   265.5 kb/s
: phobos   (pentium 90, FreeBSD): 107 s  188.6 kb/s   32 s   630.5 kb/s
: neptunus (sparc, SunOS):        120 s  168.1 kb/s   20 s  1008.8 kb/s

can you please do the same test on a linux 1.3.68+ kernel - because someone
mentioned they speeded up the nfs code in that version - i would be interested
in how much they speeded them up

thanks in advance

t

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  thomas graichen    graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de    graichen@FreeBSD.org

  perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when
      there is no longer anything to take away    antoine de saint-exupery



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