Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (949 mails)

[adavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew L. Davis)]

On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 07:31:43PM +0100, Anatoli Iouditski wrote:
> 
> Well, in my previous message I have suggested that 
> NFS write operation is slow. Now I am desperate completely
> because I've found out that the read is very slow also. 
> For instance, here are the elapsed times on an Ultra host
> on my linux box (P2-266, 3c905 network card)
> for two commands
> 
> time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=16k count=1024
> ultra: 0:16.79
> linux: 15:24.33
> 
> time dd if=testfile of=/dev/null bs=16k count=1024
> ultra: 0:00.25 
> linux: 1:00.43
> 
> When I use ftp I obtain rather reasonable transfer rates
> (up to 500KB/s). Is my installation (SuSE 5.1) wrong or what?

Linux is known to have one of the slowest NFS clients/servers.  This is 
suppost to be fixed in the new Linux kernel, or be on the list of things 
to rewrite.
 

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Andrew L. Davis					Network Operations
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