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From: jim@newmedia.UUCP (Jim Beveridge)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: PC-NFS performance
Message-ID: <448@newmedia.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 91 16:31:00 GMT
Organization: New Media Graphics, Billerica, MA
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I am running PC-NFS v3.0.1 hooked up to a Sun 3/60 server.
The problem is that the write performance is awful -- it does
pretty well reading, but trying to do something like a compile
over the net is pretty much hopeless.

Checking NFSSTAT shows that there are no problems with retries
or timeouts.  I do, however, hear the hard disk thrashing away
quite a bit on each write.  Much more so than if I were trying
to do an NFS write from another Sun.

Is this just a problem with PC-NFS?  Is there a parameter that
I didn't tune?  How can I adjust rsize and wsize?


	Thanks,
	Jim


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