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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!glt From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Very very slow NFS writes.. Date: 5 Apr 1993 11:06:00 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 48 Message-ID: <1pp3qoINNd2u@gap.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu Well I was finally able to get my NFS connection going..how? I dunno.. I just recompiled the kernel in a vain attempt to get mtools to read my DOS Disk and though mtools still doesn't read my dos HD, I can now NFS... Now I have another problem, my NFS speed. I can read via NFS very fast.. I timed the speeds to be around 200k+.. This is actually better than my ftp gets from my computer. My ftp puts from my computer is around 180k+, about the speed of my ftp gets... Now my NFS write are super slow..I get around .5k writes..extremeley slow... and not only that, when I write..my whole computer locks up during the write...and for large files..this can be a rather long lockup... I have all of PatchKit 0.2.2 installed and have rebuilt everything. I am using a NE2000 compat. Ethernet card on a 386/40 with 8 megs of ram and 245 megs devoted to BSD. The machine I am NFSing to is a HP-Apollo 9000 series 425 workstation. It is running HP-UX version 8.0. It also has bundles of Hard disk space my computer badly needs. I have portmap running as well as 4 nfsiods running on my machine. I tried enabling the async option on the HP..but I got the same results.. I have all the stuff the genericisa had compiled into my kernel along is an ATI busmouse driver which works kinda flakey during hard disk writes.. Also, how does one mount a MS-DOS partition or Drive like in Linux. Is this possible? If this is not possible..how can I get mtools to recognize my DOS HD disk... I tried compiling TCX, but no matter which machine I picked in the config.h file, it refuses to compile. The Ultrix configuration seemed to compile the farthest, but even that doesn't get very far. My last question is about version .2 of 386BSD. Is the next version going to be just a patched up version of .1 or a totally radical change like .1 was to .0. I did read the new FAQs..but they were not very specific. If .2 is going to be a big change, what new features can definitely be expected. Also just when is .2 386bsd going to be out and how far is .2 developed as of now.. If anyone can answer any of these questions (especially the NFS one) I would be greatly appreciative.. -Greg Tanaka glt@cco.caltech.edu glt@ugcs.caltech.edu glt@macross.caltech.edu (my rather flakey 386BSD system) all the genericisa stuff compiled in along with a ATI busmouse driver..