Re: Why is NFS so slow??
Olivier Galibert (galibert@pobox.com)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 12:38:07 +0100
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 11:02:12AM +1100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Thanks, I didn't know that. It doesn't seem to work very well though:
> under 2.1.90, when I mounted an Irix 6.5 NFS server and copied a 7MB
> file to /dev/null locally, it turned the machine into a gibbering heap
> for a few minutes. It seemed to cause lots of other TCP connections to
> collapse, including most of my X clients.
>
> Using UDP it copied in about 10 seconds.
Irix is *terrible* when it comes to NFS. We had and still have at
times tremendous problems with it. Don't take it as a reference. Use a
Solaris instead.
Linux shouldn't destroy its other connections though.
OG.
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