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From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: nfsd-udp very cpu hungry...
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 10:47:35 GMT
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simon@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Simon Richardson) writes:
>Hi.
>I am having a spot of bother setting up 386bsd on a network. I have the
>0.2.2 patchkit installed. I have a 486/DX2 at 33 (66?) Mhz which I am
>trying to use on ethernet as a server, with an nfs card configured as ne0.
>When my other (386Dx 40Mhz) machine tries to use NFS off this machine, the
>nfs-udp daemon becomes very cpu hungry. ps -aux (eventually) reports 556%
^^^^
Wauw....Thats nice...a virtual cpu os :-)
I wish I had a cpu that could be used 500% ;-)
>cpu usage. Obviously this degrades performance a tad. (5 mins to log on, or
>worse).
>I can FTP large files from one machine to another, and telnet from one
>machine to another. Ping reports no problems, so I assume it is just NFS.
>Is there a patch? Is anyone working on this? Or have I done something
>silly?
Perhaps it is the ne2000 driver? How about testing the same system with
a wd8003 for a day or so (just lend it from someone).
>Thanx
> Simon
>---
>"A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion"
> John Fowles
-Guido