Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 1998 12:38:07 +0100 | From | Olivier Galibert <> | Subject | Re: Why is NFS so slow?? |
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On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 11:02:12AM +1100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Thanks, I didn't know that. It doesn't seem to work very well though: > under 2.1.90, when I mounted an Irix 6.5 NFS server and copied a 7MB > file to /dev/null locally, it turned the machine into a gibbering heap > for a few minutes. It seemed to cause lots of other TCP connections to > collapse, including most of my X clients. > > Using UDP it copied in about 10 seconds.
Irix is *terrible* when it comes to NFS. We had and still have at times tremendous problems with it. Don't take it as a reference. Use a Solaris instead.
Linux shouldn't destroy its other connections though.
OG.
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