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From: girgen@partitur.se (Palle Girgensohn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CAP on FreeBSD seems to be rather slow
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 02:40:46 +0200
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>> I compiled CAP with patches to 197 under FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE,
>> having remade the kernel with bpfilter 16 and them MAKEDEVing bpf0-15.
>> 
>> I'm running it on a local ether segment, with the FreeBSD box and a
>> powermac 8100. The powermac tells me there are no zones, but I can mount
>> from the FreeBSD box with no problems. However copying SimpleText
>> to the "mac" volume takes over 3 minutes.
>> 
>> Have I forgotten something, or is it supposed to be this slow?
>
>Make sure you have the STAT_CACHE feature enabled.

Also check out <http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/freebsd/freebsd+cap/>. It
gives hints to some patches that boosts performance considerably.

It really helped for me!

Regards,
Palle Girgensohn

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Palle Girgensohn                                     Electrical Engineering
girgen@e.kth.se                               Royal Institute of Technology
+46 708 99 97 29                                          Stockholm, Sweden