Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.15.1 + NFS is 4 times slower than FTP!? | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:11:23 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2006-01-17 at 18:48 +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > > I wonder how much faster NFS over TCP would be, or if NFS in the kernel is > > the problem itself? > > On Linux NFS over TCP is slower than over UDP ~10%.
For the specific case you measured. Its never quite that simple because behaviour over different networks and error patterns varies a lot and TCP can be a big win on loaded networks or under error conditions, especially packet loss, where fragmentation losses kill throughput on UDP.
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