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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: nfs speed question
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 06:03:24 GMT
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Ralph-Thomas Aussem (1aussem@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de) wrote:

: I setup several FreeBSD 2.1 systems connected with tcp/ip over ethernet
: (ne2000 compatible cards). 
: The server is a Pentiun 100Mhz with a Quantum fireball 1G harddisk.
: I got nearly 200kb/s over nfs (mounted with -T,-l,-q,-b,-i,-s,-k as
: option mount_nfs).  If I mounted the drive to two different host
: with nfs the speed goes down to 100kb/s.

: Is there a possibility to increase the speed ? 

I get roughly 300k/sec between a FreeBSD 2.0.5R and 2.1R box talking
to a BSDI 1.0 box.  They are all using 3COM 3C509 cards.  FTP transfers
tend to be in the 500-700k/sec range.

Regards,

Chris
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