On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:51:27 -0700, "Simon J. Gerraty" writes:
>nn-6.4.19 built fine and seems to work - except that there is a delay
>of about a minute when moving from one group to the next.

Looks like an NFS or amd issue?  ktrace shows it takes 31s for close
of ~/.newsrc.bak to return.

  2559 nn       0.000766 RET   write 1714/0x6b2
  2559 nn       0.000626 CALL  close(0x4)
  2559 nn       31.668484 RET   close 0

and then to close ~/.newsrc

  2559 nn       0.000738 RET   write 1714/0x6b2
  2559 nn       0.000615 CALL  close(0x4)
  2559 nn       22.199333 RET   close 0

~/ is mounted via amd.  

The file is 362162 bytes.  Network is 10baseT only 
ep0 on client is a 3C509
ex0 on server is a 3c905B-TX 10/100

Both machines are running: NetBSD/i386 1.6.1_STABLE

I know I used to get better performance from this client (when it had
an even crappier NIC and was a server ;-) by limiting the NFS writes
to 1024.  I don't see anything in amd.conf(5) or amd(8) to suggest how
that might be done.

Perhaps using TCP mounts would help?

--sjg