I knew that nfs under linux was not the best, but this is ridiculous.
I'm trying to set things up at work so that /home is kept on a server
and nfs mounted on all the desktop machines. It was noticeably
slower, but I figured it would be.
Then last night I ran some tests. Following the advice of the NFS
HOWTO I ran:
time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=16k count=4096
The result was that it took 8 minutes to copy 64MB between two 500MHz
Pentium IIIs on a 100-baseT switched network. I know NFS is slow, but
that's ridiculous!
WITH speeds so slow, I figure that I must be doing something wrong, so
I didn't bother trying to fiddle with the rsize and wsize options.
They are currently the defaults.
The server is running RedHat 6.1 with the supplied kernel. Does that
include the NFS patches?
The client is running 2.2.14 with the autofs patches. Do I need to
put in the NFS patches, too? Will it make that much difference?
Thanks in advance,
--Michael
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