On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Try mounting with -d... Can I make a guess that the NFS mount is going over
> > 100MB ethernet? I have a strong theory that the dynamic retransmit timer
> > needs rework for low latency connections, with high variability in their
> > performance during high traffic. (lots of collisions)
> 
> Hmmm, well the client/server are both on 100mbit
> full duplex switched ethernet, fxp0<->fxp0 with no load
> other than the build going on.
> 

With a full duplex setup collisions don't exist. In a switched setup the 
latency should be very consistent and extremely low. Something else must 
be wrong here.

I'm very glad NFS is getting fixed - I'd really like to use FreeBSD in a 
frontend/backend setup with multiple round-robin DNS setup web servers 
with the web content on a backend NFS/RAID server. (poor man's Network 
Appliance equivalent :-)


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