Jason Staczek wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm seeing some behavior I don't understand at all, wondering if anyone can > shed some light. I have two dual 2.5 G5 Macs, identical hardware, except one > is running Tiger, the other Leopard. They're on a gigabit switch which also > has an dual Opteron opensolaris box running a big raidz2 pool shared through > NFS. > > Writes from Leopard to solaris over NFS are fast (~25Mb/s). Writes from Tiger > to solaris over NFS are 10x slower. > > Most puzzling of all, if I copy from Tiger through Leopard over AFP to > solaris over NFS, writes are even faster than writing from Leopard local disk > even though twice as much data is moving through the switch! > > Are there known issues with Tiger and NFS? Should I just be running AFP > (possible?) on the opensolaris box? Any hints on how to diagnose? ifconfig > reports the same thing on Tiger and Leopard machines. > > Thanks for any tips. > > Jason > > PS - Apologies if this post is misplaced. It looks like the solaris box is > doing its job and that this may be a Mac issue, but there aren't many other > places to ask questions of Mac folks who connect to opensolaris over NFS. >
Nah, right place to ask... A quick google turned up this: http://thebigdeal.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/nfs-and-eclipse-on-leopard/ http://markmail.org/message/leb2hkzgm7lpyy7s If the last doesn't help, let me know and I'll ask an internal macheads list...
