>>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk von Suchodoletz <dirk@goe.net> writes: >> Once Linux is up and running, I am getting a little over 8MByte/sec >> NFS from the 21143 card, which is about as good as you can expect >> from NFS across a 100Mbps full duplex link, so that indicates that >> the card itself is not the problem. Dirk> Hi, not exactly an answer, but a question: How did you get such Dirk> a great NFS speed. We run a heavily NFS based environment too, Dirk> but get only about 3,5MByte/sec transfer speed (with DEC-Tulip Dirk> 21143 and RTL8139 cards mixed) ... Has a lot to do with your kernel/NFS version. Linux NFS changed quite a bit recently, I'm given to understand... but as a datapoint, Our FreeBSD boxes can get about 11M/s transfer over NFS on full-duplex 100Mb links. It can also be heavily affected if you're using a 100Mb hub and not a switch. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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