Hi guys, first of all, thanks a lot for the effort you're putting into nbd. The package has handled my off-site backups gracefully for 2+ years, so I am one happy user!
Now, it looks to me like my kernel performs too much write-buffering. When a large file is copied to an nbd-mounted partition, the initial 2 MB or so are transferred at incredible speed; apparently, because the kernel just buffers the data. At one point, the kernel actually tries to transfer the data to the remote host, but that takes several minutes. During that time, the nbd-device is almost unusable for other processes because it accepts no more writes at all (and reads have a hard time getting through the network connection). Has anyone else observed that phenomenon? Is there maybe a way to improve the situation? Take care, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
