Re: can anyone explain this state?

[Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>]

Peter Staubach wrote:

> Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
>> on den 17.08.2005 Klokka 19:13 (+0800) skreiv Michael:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> These day, I observed a strange thing when I copy a 100MB file from
>>> nfs server, both client and server is running redhat 9.0 with kernel
>>> 2.4.20-8:
>>>
>>> $ sudo mount -o
>>> rw,bg,vers=3,tcp,timeo=600,rsize=1024,wsize=1024,hard,intr,ac
>>> server1:/home/test filetest
>>>
>
>
> One last point, I would question your original timing and what the
> configuration looks like.  100M shouldn't take 66 seconds to transfer.
> Even over a 100baseT wire it should take about 10 seconds... 


Oops, sorry, glossed over the 1024 byte transfer sizes used for this 
transfer.
They will kill performance.  Don't use such small sizes unless you have no
other options for getting any connectivity.  I would recommend at least 4k,
8k is better, and 32k is better than that.

    Thanx...

       ps


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