On Wed, 25 May 2005, Matt Van Mater wrote:
> Another similar performance issue that I saw here a while back was
> poor performance of OpenBSD->OpenBSD network transfers (the thread was
> about NFS write performance I think). When you mix up transfers
> between other OS's (ie free->open, open->free, linux->open,
> free->linux, etc ) you don't see that performance loss. I don't
> remember how that thread ended, but I think it was mostly tips on how
> to increase NFS write performance and no mention of the network
> drivers/stack or why OpenBSD->OpenBSD sometimes is a little slow.
This particular performance problem has been analyzed and fixed in
-current. Basically NFS was rate limiting writes. Write performance using
NFS is now very decent.
-Otto
