Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:34:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: knowtree@aloha.com Cc: Marco Masotti <masotti@mclink.it>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Binaries NFS transparency Message-ID: <19980201203442.44497@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34D4420D.62F0@aloha.com>; from Gary Dunn on Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 11:36:13PM -1000 References: <34D32A7E.2781@mclink.it> <34D4420D.62F0@aloha.com>
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On Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 11:36:13PM -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: > Marco Masotti wrote: >> >> I'm trying to NFS share a bunch of binaries, whose size is fairly big, >> from some megs to hundreds. >> >> The NFS server is a PPro FBSD 2.2.5-REL, the client is an Enterprise >> 4000 with Solaris 2.5.1 >> >> At runtime some of the application functions just get stuck. > > If the binaries are executables it is not going to work. Why not? I'm sure I'm not the only person who's been doing this for years. > If they are data, you may need a better NIC. NFS is hell on slow PC > NIC boards. Well, it's not as fast as local. But it's not that slow. What do you consider "slow as hell"? Greg
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