Re: poor nfs performance

[Bill Hawes]

Rogier Wolff wrote:
> There is somthing fishy going on with SUNs and NFS performance. About
> 2 or three years ago, a friend of mine came to the conclusion that
> SunOS <-> SunOS and Solaris <-> Solaris worked fine, and that
> SunOS <-> Solaris was very slow. So it seems that Linux adds a third
> class to this mess, and is outperformed in some way or another by both
> the Suns.....
> 
> (300kb/sec where 900/sec is possible is BAD performance)

If it's just a tuning issue we should be able to figure out what the Sun
machines are doing to optimize performance, and then emulate that. If
someone has access to the machines in question and can analyze the
network traffic, I'll try to adapt the code to improve the performance.

Regards,
Bill