Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:31:39 -0700 | From | Marc Singer <> | Subject | Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x |
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 08:56:19AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:36:14AM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Marc Singer wrote: > > > > > Client is a 200MHz ARM; server is a Linux host running 2.6.3 with the > > > kernel nfs daemon; network is 100Mib. There is nothing else on the > > > network except intermittent broadband traffic. Async is set on the > > > server side. > > > > Is the ARM that slow? under 2MB/s seems odd to me...but them maybe I'm > > used to faster machines. > > It's probably the SMC91c111 ether chip causing all the problem - it's > only able to store about 4 packets before it starts dropping, which > isn't that much on a 100mbit network.
I suspect that it might be a CPU issue. On transmit only, it never gets above 18Mib.
> Running with rsize=4096 works wonders with this chip.
Already there.
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