Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote:
cfelli >Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered.
cfelli >But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still
cfelli >wondering... Is the overhead mainly in the extra bytes to be sent,
cfelli >then a 100Mbs Ethernet card would improve things. Or is the overhead
cfelli >also in the pre/post processing, so a faster computer is wat's needed?
look at a network monitor like iptraf when transferring files and look at
how many bytes are transferred during file copy with NFS, are you using
knfsd or a user space nfsd? have you tried switching to knfsd if your
using a userspace nfsd or the other way around if your using a userspace
nfsd?
i have seen a lot of reports that the nfs system in linux is horrible at
the moment, if NFS is really important to you it may be worth looking into
if there are commercial packages available that give linux better NFS
support.
nate
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