Subject: Re: poor NFS/amd performance
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/18/2003 20:55:06
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:43:15AM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> [...]
> 
> 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's probably it. The 3c509 has small (2k) buffers, the 32k nfs
packets will easily overflow it.

> that might be done.

It's probably rsize=xxx,wsize=xxx , from memory

> 
> Perhaps using TCP mounts would help?

It probably would.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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