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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!rcarter From: rcarter@netcom.com (Russell Carter) Subject: Re: BSD NFS speeds Message-ID: <rcarterCyJuyL.EHz@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <38upqc$k5c@news.doit.wisc.edu> <MICHAELV.94Oct29202336@mindbender.headcandy.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 18:20:44 GMT Lines: 34 In article <MICHAELV.94Oct29202336@mindbender.headcandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >In article <38upqc$k5c@news.doit.wisc.edu> calica@cae.wisc.edu (Carlo James Calica) writes: > > How fast are the 386BSD derivatives exporting NFS? I currently > run a Linux network and the NFS speed sucks. Is Free or NetBSD any > faster? Also will they work with my NE2000 and NE2100 net cards? > Thanks. EMail prefered. > >I'm told that both NetBSD and FreeBSD NFS is significantly faster than >Linux. Although you may not see much difference if you're still using >a Linux box as the client, since that's where most of the speed >degradation lies. It's true, the linux NFS performance is pretty bad. But I'm not so sure the FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 NFS is real great either. I'm currently sorting this all out with a 16cpu P5-90 cluster that is running Linux now. I've just brought up FreeBSD on a P5-90 and the sorting out difficulty is [see below]. > >Also, the NE2000 type cards suck. They work, but there are much >better cards out there (SMC WD80xx and 3com 3c5x9). > Well, you see, we've got 3c509 cards, and I can crash my 486-66 2 cpu cluster when I run something heavy like HP/SGI netperf. I've even hung it good and solid running bonnie on an NFS mounted file system. This is vanilla FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 + latest ncr pci drivers. Haven't seen this on the linux boxes using Becker's 3c509 drivers. More as it develops... Russell