On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Dec 13), Mike Silbersack said: > > And if you hadn't heard, Matt just fixed a couple of bugs in the tcp > > stack which improves NFS greatly. It sounds like after this round of > > NFS fixes, the first answer to NFS questions should be: Upgrade to > > 4.5! > > I don't even bother with TCP mounts; my default amd rule says > proto=udp. Is there any reason to add the overhead of the TCP stack if > you're not leaving your own ethernet? > > You should be able to easily saturate a 100mbit link with FreeBSD 4.* > machines, and I can do 15-20MB/sec with Netgear GA620 gigabit nics (SMP > 2 x pIII/600). > > -- > Dan Nelson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not a NFS user, so I can't comment on how NFS is normally used... but my guess would be that while UDP may be faster when you're benchmarking two computers, it'll cause a lot more congestion when you have 200 computers. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
