In the last episode (Dec 19), Zaphod Beeblebrox said: > Here's an interesting conundrum. I don't know what's different between > the TCP that scp uses from the TCP that NFS uses, but given the same two > FreeBSD machines, SCP fills the pipe with packets better. > > Examine the following graphic: http://www.eicat.ca/~dgilbert/example-mrtg.png > > The system doing the scp and the NFS server is FreeBSD-7.2-p1. The system > receiving the scp and the NFS client is FreeBSD-8.0-p1 > > The scp transfer is the left hand side of the graph and the NFS transfer > is on the right. > > The NFS is mounted with "-3 -T -b -l -i" and no other options. Files are > being moved over NFS with the system "mv" command. The files in each case > are large (50 to 500 meg files).
If you increase the NFS blocksize (-r 32768 for example) you will get slightly better performance, but you will likely never match the scp results. They're doing two different things under the hood: scp is streaming the entire file in one operation, while NFS is performing many "read 8k at offset 0", "read 8k at offset 8k", etc requests one after another, so a high-latency connection will take a performance hit due to the latency in issuing each command. According to the mount_nfs manpage, it looks like there is some prefetching that can be enabled with the "-a ##" option. It doesn't say what the default is, though. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"