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Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:04:26 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        dutchman@spase.nl (Kees Jan Koster)
Subject:   Re: Linux/FreeBSD NFS performance.
Message-ID:  <199602222004.VAA26185@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602221345.OAA00338@deimos.spase.nl> from "Kees Jan Koster" at Feb 22, 96 02:45:03 pm

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As Kees Jan Koster wrote:

> copying very_big_file (20.175.259 bytes) to and from NFS server spase5 (hp9000)
>                                 machine -> server   server -> machine

> 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
> 
> Hhmmm. Why can't FreeBSD match the read performence of the sun? ;)

Because your FreeBSD machine has a poor network card (or poor FreeBSD
driver)?

I've tested it with a ~ 20 MB file mounting localhost.  I've got 14
seconds reading the file, ~ 1458 KB/s.  This is on a not-so-fast
486/33.  Since i know that it's possible to saturate an ethernet with
FreeBSD (network data rate > 1 MB/s), i suspect your ethernet card is
the bottleneck.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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