On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:27:36 +0000
Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:

> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> I've got a NetBSD 3.0_RC6 NFS server and a MacOS X 10.3.9 NFS client.
> NFS works fine in general but is miserable slow. Copying a file 300MB
> file takes about an hour. Transfering a file of the same size with
> FTP only takes half a minute. "ttcp" between the two systems runs
> nicely at 90MB/s. The mount parameters in "mounts.byname"
> look like this:
> 
> server:/remote/path /local/path nfs rw,nosuid,nodevs,resvport,tcp 0 0
> 
> Has anybody else seen similar problems? Is there a solution?
> 
> 	Kind regards
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/

Try something like this in your fstab when mounting nfs directories:

nfs_server:/remote_dir /local_mount_point nfs tcp,intr,-w=32768,-r32768,rw 0 0