Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x

[Russell King]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:36:14AM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Marc Singer wrote:
> 
> > Client is a 200MHz ARM; server is a Linux host running 2.6.3 with the
> > kernel nfs daemon; network is 100Mib.  There is nothing else on the
> > network except intermittent broadband traffic.  Async is set on the
> > server side.
> 
> Is the ARM that slow?  under 2MB/s seems odd to me...but them maybe I'm 
> used to faster machines.

It's probably the SMC91c111 ether chip causing all the problem - it's
only able to store about 4 packets before it starts dropping, which
isn't that much on a 100mbit network.

Running with rsize=4096 works wonders with this chip.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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