From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 24 18:08:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA06177 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:08:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA06169 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id SAA22279; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:08:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Greg Fichter cc: nadav@barcode.co.il, questions@freebsd.org, tomdea@ix.netcom.com, acton@opentext.com Subject: Re: NFS In-Reply-To: <82C0D73301440400@mail.bridgenet-is.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hmmm, I don't do much freeBSD server NFS stuff, I mainly use it as a client. As I client, I have reached 8+ MB/second, but of course, that doesn't have any real bearing on your application, since you need server. Did you try the options like TCP or UDP, version 3 vs version 2, and check nfsstat on the freebsd server to see what it says? On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Greg Fichter wrote: > I was doing some testing with an NFS partition on a Free BSD 2.2.2 > Server, and I found that on the average file transfer rates were > approximately 100 times slower using PC-NFS vs FTP file transfer rates. > Does this seem reasonable? The PC-NFS application is called ICE-NFS, > and it was running on a windows 95 workstation. If these calculations > are correct, for what applications would a user apply an NFS filesystem. >