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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:13556 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2391 comp.unix.unixware:4276 comp.unix.solaris:15190 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.unixware,comp.unix.solaris Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!news.ppp.de!lutzifer!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: A good NFS server ? Message-ID: <1994Apr28.144110.25743@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: The Internet References: <2pfj7f$d5l@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <2pg694$e52@hermes.unt.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 14:41:10 GMT Lines: 25 byron@ocf.nms.unt.edu (Byron Goodman) writes: >dan@dna.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu wrote: >: I have been thinking about giving Linux a try, but I have heard that >: it isn't a very good NFS server. What is the current state of the Linux NFS >: server ? >: Would FreeBSD, NetBSD, Unixware or Solaris X86 be better choices as >: an NFS server ? I would be doing a lot of multi-Mbyte reads and writes to it. >: How do these UNIX variants compare as far as NFS implementation is concerned ? >I personally seem to think that FreeBSD is faster that most other UNIX's >availble for 80x86 processors. You probably won't believe me, but I'm >using an 8bit 3com 3c503 running FreeBSD 1.1-BETA on a 486SX and it out >performs a SCO System running SCO Unix 4.2.4 on a NE2000 ethernet card >that runs on a 486DX50. Me, too. My 486-DX ISA with WD 8013 and 1542 outperforms any other PC-Unix I drove on it (Linux, Esix 4.0.4, SCO). The performance both as a server and a client is compareable to my SPARC's (which has faster disks). Additionally FreeBSD is capable of using NFS over tcp. Should be much faster over slow lines. -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin.Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, Fax. +41 40 5228536, German language accepted