[ale] NFS performance

[Stephen R. Wylie]

On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Bob's ALE Mail wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:06:46 -0500
> From: Bob's ALE Mail <transam at cavu.com>
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: [ale] NFS performance
> 
> Someone I know is using the NFS server on a RedHat system, claims that
> it is a non-kernel NFS implementation and claims that the performance is
> slow and is there an alternative Linux NFS with better performance.
> 
> I would suspect slow routers first.

i dunno about this...

> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this?

i'm gonna try... ;)

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Toxen
> bob at cavu.com
> transam at cavu.com [ALE & linux-ppp]
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> 

i have an alpha with redhat4.0 [yuck] installed on it. it is faster than
my intel linux boxes in every respect EXCEPT nfs... It is only capable of
about 35k/sec transfer rates... I get MUCH faster nfs over a 486/66 with
a couple of old ide hard drives [i built this beast from spare parts
laying around]. 100+ k/sec

Looks like redhat dropped this ball too... They must have dropped balls
all over their field; I spent 2 days tracking down all the major problems
with redhat and fixing them.

All my intel systems are slackware... Slackware's not perfect either, but
if you know how to run a linux system, imho it's the way to go.

I'm not trying to get anyone to turn on their flamethrowers on this one... 
Just stating my opinion [which might be fulla **** in yours ;)  ] I'm
totally unimpressed with redhat; both the company and their linux
distribution.

regards,


srw
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