Could you try connecting the linux box at 10Mb to see if its a
	10/100 switch issue.
	Also try setting the read and write sizes (probably -o bs=xxxx)
	to differing values to see if that helps.

	Linux nfs has come a long way, but its not quite there yet.

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Leonard Chung wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got an old (but trusty!) IIsi running as an NFS server for several
> clients. It's been working great for a long time and has been extremely
> stable. It's still running the old 1.4 GENERIC kernel.
>
> I recently put YellowDogLinux on an old 7200 with a 100Mbit ethernet card.
> When I NFS mount across the network, I'm finding extremely slow NFS
> transfer rates (about 10-20KB/s) where I can pull generally at least
> 300-400KB off my other BSD machines. I know the machine is capable of much
> higher bandwidths, since I've gotten well over a few megs a second off the
> 100Mbit card through FTP.
>
> Is there some known issue with tunable NFS parameters not getting along
> between NetBSD and Linux machines?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leonard
>
>
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