Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: Poor NFS performance against FreeBSD server

# Re: Poor NFS performance against FreeBSD server

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:35:37 +0100 (BST)

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> I have tested iozone against a FreeBSD NFS server from my 2.2.9-ac4
> clients. It shows very bad performance during NFS writes (around 80 Ko/s),

I dont know why BSD should be so slow with Linux. That suprises me as
(for x86 anyway) it uses 4K pages

> similar to the performance I have against our Solaris E450.

How about with rsize=8192,wsize=8192 ?

> the case (NFS V2 clients against NFS V3 server, for example). And I
> would like to avoid adding right now NFS V3 support in the kernel,
> unless it is included in the main tree.

NFSv3 will give you a massive speed up with Solaris, but of course you take
a stability risk

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