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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: A good NFS server ?
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 07:43:46 GMT
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In <2rcdee$c8@wea.eel.ufl.edu> acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin) writes:
>One major deficiency wrt Linux is its *very* slow NFS service-- it's
>presently slower than that on any other Unix implementation I've used.
>Can anyone explain why this might be so?
I can't say that I have any experience with Linux as a NFS server, but
I have also seen rather poor performance with a Linux system running as
a NFS client. (About 90K/sec for a Linux client, as opposed to 600K/sec
for a FreeBSD client, running the same hardware.)
What I did notice, is that Linux does not appear to have a nfsiod. Is
this correct? Maybe someone on one of the Linux groups has some
suggestions on how to increase performance?
As far as running NFS on FreeBSD goes, that has recently been added to
the FAQ, and people having questions may want to have a look there.
Geoff.
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