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From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux. TCP and NFS performance?
Date: 2 Apr 1997 21:13:13 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Tim White (osas@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
:  at Intel architecture.  Several are Linux guys at home..so  they are
:  predisposed in that direction. I've seen several posts on  relative
:  tcp/nfs performance numbers and was under the impression NFS
:  under FreeBSD was 2-3 times faster. 

My guess is that FreeBSD NFS is much faster, especially with 100baseT
networks.  The Linux NFS server is a user level process (one process) 
so there are two extra bcopies that happen for that server.
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Larry McVoy     lm@sgi.com     http://reality.sgi.com/lm     (415) 933-1804