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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:20:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Geoff Mohler <gemohler@www.speedtoys.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112130918260.54230-100000@speedracer.speedtoys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011213153035.GB56448@dan.emsphone.com>

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For some people, the overhead is an acceptible tradeoff to redundancy.

Ever since Cisco released thier 6500 10/100 blades that to crappy
buffering between a Gigabit NFS server (could be anything, just an
example) and an 100Mbit client, people have somewhat been adding that
overhead to thier CPU and data-rate budgets as "acceptable losses".

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Dec 13), Mike Silbersack said:
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > > Geoff Mohler wrote:
> > > :Are there any hidden secrets to eeking out more performance from
> > > :the BSD NFS client (other than version types and the normal fstab
> > > :tweaks).
> > 
> > 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!
> 
> I don't even bother with TCP mounts; my default amd rule says
> proto=udp.  Is there any reason to add the overhead of the TCP stack if
> you're not leaving your own ethernet?
> 
> You should be able to easily saturate a 100mbit link with FreeBSD 4.*
> machines, and I can do 15-20MB/sec with Netgear GA620 gigabit nics (SMP
> 2 x pIII/600).
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
> 

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Geoff Mohler


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