Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:24:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jauder Ho <> | Subject | Re: Happiness is fast compilation over NFS |
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read some of the posts about setting NFS flags to read/write 8192
--Jauder
On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Peter Desnoyers wrote:
> After a great deal of disappointment because the nice fast Linux > systems we bought at work (mostly at my urging) compile slower than > diskless sun3s*, I finally sat down and started playing around with the > GNU assembler. > > Lo and behold, if you define FILE_OFFSET_IS_CHAR_INDEX at the top of > libbfd.c (or in bfd/Makefile) and recompile, writes get coalesced > properly and compilation over NFS works the way it should. > > I just thought there would be other people out on the list who would > appreciate this information... > > [*no flames, please. With compiler, source, and target all over NFS - > which is a typical configuration with most modern workstations - Linux > compile performance is awful. The problem is 2-fold - the Linux NFS > client doesn't coalesce small writes into larger ones, and the GNU > assembler + GNU libc interact by default in a way which causes the > assembler to do most of its writing in chunks of 20 to 100 bytes.] > > -- > > ............................................................................... > Peter Desnoyers : Midnight Networks Inc. 200 Fifth Avenue Waltham MA 02154 > pjd@midnight.com : Ph. 617/890-1001 Fax -0028 The Best in Network Software > > >
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