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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Fast SCSI controller
To: af@biomath.jussieu.fr (Alain FAUCONNET)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:29:11 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199606131827.AA22687@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> from "Alain FAUCONNET" at Jun 13, 96 07:27:22 pm
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> Weird... it sounds precisely like what made me switch  my  desktop  PC
> from Linux to FreeBSD... while running Linux, a compilation of gcc  on
> a  remote  filesystem  was  bringing  an otherwise idle SS10/40 on its
> knees, with its disk making a noise like a coffee grinding  machine  !
>
> Are you sure you're not using some strange NFS  r/w  block  size ?  or
> some especially poor net adapter ?
>
> I  have  nothing  but  praises for FreeBSD's NFS code (both server and
> client) and network layers, even on my not-too-fast 3C509 !

Its an SMC Etherpower card, and its funky.  Well next time it occurs I'll try
and get a traceback if I can.

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich