> > > 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.

This is the perfect machine to run the page loaning experiments on!.