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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
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Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD NFS performance.
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It's going to take some real work to make linux nfs run well. The server 
is in user mode -- no multiple nfs requests active (until they multhread 
it). also, user-mode means a couple context switches per request -- oops. 

Also linux networking performance is still way off the mark. 

ron

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