> > i haven't benchmarked exactly.
> > but when a client is reading a big file over 100base-T link,
> > read speed is almost same as before and top(1) on my nfsd box shows
> > about +10% idle time.
>
> I like this.  Anything to free up the CPU is important on lower-powered

it is important everywhere :) just most important that case.

nfsd could do 8MB/s on my pentium 133 but used 100% CPU.