On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 22:18, Mark Belanger wrote: > What would you say about a machineY that exhibited the > following characteristics? > > 1. AnyClientN can copy large files from machineY > to local disk very quickly(via NFS). i.e. > # cp /nfs/machineY/BigFile . > > 2. NFS file operations run by AnyClientN on the machineY > filesystem show wild variations in the time required > to process lstat64 and open64 system calls. i.e. > # find /nfs/machineY/DirWithManyFiles > /dev/null > This command takes any where from 1 to 20 seconds with > most of the time being spent in the lstat64 and open64 > system calls. > > machineY is: > Solaris8 w/64 bit > 2x750 UltraSparc3 > SunSwift Gigabit ethernet > Switched Network > Same subnet as client via vlan > Clients are mix of Solaris 2.8, 2.7, and 2.5.1 > Linux clients are consistently as fast as heck.
For anyone interested in this... We solved our problem with a Sun patch for the SunSwift gigabit ethernet card. The $1200 ethernet card we purchased 2 months ago came with drivers that were useless. They just don't make $1200 NICs like they use to. Call me disgruntled. -Mark
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