Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 00:24:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>, <kellers@njit.edu> Subject: Re: NFS/NIS... arg! Message-ID: <20020709002047.C94254-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20020707185443.GE52229@dan.emsphone.com>
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Not "snappy" means palpably slow. Imagine a shared dialup network connection with more than one machine attempting downloads. To be a bit more concrete, I can login via the CLI, but AI have to wait several seconds before my typed commands echo back on the originating workstation. I think I've got some network gremlins to contend with but I appreciate any input you might have, and thanks for the reply. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 07), Tim Kellers said: > > I've got courses to teach FreeBSD in FreeBSD coming up Real Soon Now. > > I've set up our instructional lab to use NIS/NFS from a master server > > so that all the student UID's are authenticated from the same server > > and have their home directories mounted on the same, central, server. > > > > The problem is that the NIS/NFS combination is way too slow. It's > > far from "snappy" in the command line environment and in Desktop mode > > (one of the last sections in the curriculum is "Advanced Desktops") > > loading is so slow it's as though time itself has stopped. > > This is a pretty vague complaint. Exactly what is not "snappy"? By > far the worst enemy of NFS is dropped packets. Make sure you have a > fully-switched ethernet path from client to server, preferably 100mbit > or faster. I have never seen any slowness attributable to NIS (I've > only got 150 userids though). > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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