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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!hyperion.wright.edu!echoes.wittenberg.edu!bob.wittenberg.edu!mandrews From: mandrews@bob.Wittenberg.EDU (Mike Andrews) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CAP on FreeBSD seems to be rather slow Date: 5 Aug 96 20:24:18 GMT Organization: Wittenberg University, Springfield OH Lines: 45 Message-ID: <mandrews.839276658@bob.wittenberg.edu> References: <533f3qw4g0.fsf@virtue.vide.coventry.ac.uk> <brychcy-2606961430570001@news.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <girgen-1607960240460001@sl51.modempool.kth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: bob.wittenberg.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #8 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.appletalk:22230 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:25064 girgen@partitur.se (Palle Girgensohn) writes: >>> I compiled CAP with patches to 197 under FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE, >>> having remade the kernel with bpfilter 16 and them MAKEDEVing bpf0-15. >>> >>> I'm running it on a local ether segment, with the FreeBSD box and a >>> powermac 8100. The powermac tells me there are no zones, but I can mount >>> from the FreeBSD box with no problems. However copying SimpleText >>> to the "mac" volume takes over 3 minutes. >>> >>> Have I forgotten something, or is it supposed to be this slow? >> >>Make sure you have the STAT_CACHE feature enabled. >Also check out <http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/freebsd/freebsd+cap/>. It >gives hints to some patches that boosts performance considerably. >It really helped for me! I'm not the one that posted originally, but I just installed CAP on a FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE machine yesterday, and copying the Netscape 2.02 Installer from a Mac Quadra 636 to my FreeBSD box takes nearly 10 minutes, but copying it back TO the Mac takes less than a minute. This is including the two patches from the web page mentioned above. Enabling STAT_CACHE didn't help, either. FWIW, the FreeBSD machine is a 486/80 with a 3c503 ethernet card (ok, not the speediest thing, but it does Samba and NFS ok). The two machines are in different AppleTalk zones, defined by the Cisco AGS+ sitting in between the two machines. This is primarily going to be for setting up a single read-only filesystem for our campus Macs, and the read speed is acceptable... so we can get by with this, but it shouldn't take hours to copy a few mid-sized programs to it, either. I haven't yet tried netatalk, or setting tcpdump loose on it yet. Ideas? -- -- Mike Andrews - mandrews@wittenberg.edu, mandrews@termfrost.org (NeXT) -- Programmer/Analyst, systems/mail/web/netnews guy, Wittenberg University -- http://www.termfrost.org/~mandrews/ "why..."