Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:49:13 -0600 | From | Bill Anderson <> | Subject | Re: NFS in 2.2.11 (possibly 2.2.x) sucks BIGTIME. |
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David Weinehall wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Paul Jakma wrote: > > > > > > That said, it COULD be that I am a ningcompoop with things not > > > configured right... Any NFS tuning hints/suggestions? > > > > > > > mount the nfs volumes with -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192. The default is 1024, > > but 8192 is much much faster. You should be able to beat samba. Also look > > into getting the updated knfsd, and apply the kernel patches. Esp if you > > need locking to work, eg reading mail across nfs is unsafe without the > > patches. > > Well, this might work as long as poor Mike doesn't need to communicate > with non-Linux NFS-clients. However, it is (virtually) impossible to use > Linux v2.2.x NFS with w/rsize > 2048 against other clients. There is a bug > in Sun's nfs-client, which causes corruption, that only Linux triggers. > This bug has been fixed by Sun, but to little avail; lots of other 'ix:es > license Sun's (old, buggy) code.
Running 2.2.10 with NFS serving out to HPUX 10.20 clients works fine for me, and the larger r/w-size makes a significant difference :-)
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