Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:23:42 +0200 From: Sascha Holzleiter <sascha@daemonground.de> To: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_5 nfs performance Message-ID: <1095755022.35597.5.camel@area51.cc-web.ma.schlund.de> In-Reply-To: <20040920104115.P94638-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com> References: <20040920104115.P94638-100000@mxb.saturn-tech.com>
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On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 10:43 -0600, Doug Russell wrote: > Try changing to another network card from the VIA. Many of those vr cards > are very buggy and difficult to get to work properly. > > Try an fxp (Intel EtherExpress) or an xl (3Com 3c905, etc.) or something > if you have one on hand and see if that makes it work. This seems to be the actual problem. I tried all the other proposals like setting the media type manually which didn't change anything and tuning the client which gave me a doubled rate of 1MB/s for server to client transfers. So I took the chance to insert a good old fxp nic into the server which solved the problem. With fxp the rates are about 10Mb/s even with nfs. So there really seems to be a glitch with nfs and vr cards on RELENG_5 unless this one is utterly broken or broken by design which I can't rule out as this is another VIA product ;) Thanks for all your responses. -- Sascha
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