Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:36:36 +0200 (CEST) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: NFS in 2.2.11 (possibly 2.2.x) sucks BIGTIME. |
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Bill Anderson wrote:
> David Weinehall wrote: > > > > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Paul Jakma wrote: > > > > > > > > > That said, it COULD be that I am a ningcompoop with things not > > > > configured right... Any NFS tuning hints/suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > mount the nfs volumes with -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192. The default is 1024, > > > but 8192 is much much faster. You should be able to beat samba. Also look > > > into getting the updated knfsd, and apply the kernel patches. Esp if you > > > need locking to work, eg reading mail across nfs is unsafe without the > > > patches. > > > > Well, this might work as long as poor Mike doesn't need to communicate > > with non-Linux NFS-clients. However, it is (virtually) impossible to use > > Linux v2.2.x NFS with w/rsize > 2048 against other clients. There is a bug > > in Sun's nfs-client, which causes corruption, that only Linux triggers. > > This bug has been fixed by Sun, but to little avail; lots of other 'ix:es > > license Sun's (old, buggy) code. > > > Running 2.2.10 with NFS serving out to HPUX 10.20 clients works fine for > me, and the larger r/w-size makes a significant difference :-)
Yes, yes, but:
a.) Does HP/UX use Sun's NFS? b.) Does it work for you when the HP/UX box is the server and the Linux box wants to import?
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