From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 1 02:05:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA17143 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 02:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA17131 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 02:05:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA29929; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:34:47 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA08976; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:34:42 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980201203442.44497@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 20:34:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: knowtree@aloha.com Cc: Marco Masotti , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Binaries NFS transparency References: <34D32A7E.2781@mclink.it> <34D4420D.62F0@aloha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <34D4420D.62F0@aloha.com>; from Gary Dunn on Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 11:36:13PM -1000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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