Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?
Carel Fellinger wrote:
> Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered.
> But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still
> wondering... Is the overhead mainly in the extra bytes to be sent,
> then a 100Mbs Ethernet card would improve things. Or is the overhead
> also in the pre/post processing, so a faster computer is wat's needed?
Check the CPU-usage to get this answered.
BTW, CPU-usage can be horrible when copying a lot of small files. Once i
copied a win95 direcory including ~2000 .inf files from a P133(Server)
to a 486/100(client) and got a bandwidth of about 50kb/s - the
nfs-server used 100% of its CPU time.
- Konrad
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