From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 22 11:24:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA09665 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:24:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (omega.physik.fu-berlin.de [130.133.3.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA09589 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de (graichen.dialup.fu-berlin.de [160.45.217.183]) by omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id UAA03245 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 20:23:58 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by prospero (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA02026; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 18:58:08 +0100 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Path: graichen From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: local.freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD NFS performance. Date: 22 Feb 1996 17:58:07 GMT Organization: his FreeBSD box :-) Lines: 29 Distribution: local Message-ID: <4giarf$1u7@prospero.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <199602221345.OAA00338@deimos.spase.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.physik.fu-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- 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