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DateTue, 24 Mar 1998 12:38:07 +0100
FromOlivier Galibert <>
SubjectRe: Why is NFS so slow??
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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