* Robert Blayzor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080414 17:04] wrote: > On Apr 14, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > >>Are -r and -w really needed/useful for TCP mounts? > > > >yes. > > > Really? Please explain then, because the mount_nfs man page > contradicts this...
The documentation you cite is only relevant for UDP mounts. Basically, making the read/write size larger will allow more data to be sent with each RPC which reduces the uh, overhead. :) -Alfred > > "Set the read data size to the specified value. It should nor- > mally be a power of 2 greater than or equal to 1024. This should > be used for UDP mounts when the ``fragments dropped due to > timeout'' value is getting large while actively using a mountpoint." > > and > > "Set the write data size to the specified value. Ditto the comments > w.r.t. > the -r option, but using the ``fragments dropped due to timeout'' > value on > the server instead of the client. Note that both the -r and -w > options should > only be used as a last ditch effort at improving performance when > mounting servers > that do not support TCP mounts." > > > -- > Robert Blayzor, BOFH > INOC, LLC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.inoc.net/~rblayzor/ > > Mac OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than debugging > Windows. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- - Alfred Perlstein _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
