Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:56:27PM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: Carel Fellinger wrote: Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered. But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still Check the CPU-usage to get this answered. Thought I did,

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-13 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Carel Fellinger wrote: Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered. But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still wondering... Is the overhead mainly in the extra bytes to be sent, then a 100Mbs Ethernet card would improve things. Or is the

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:35:25PM -0800, aphro wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: look at a network monitor like iptraf when transferring files and look at how many bytes are transferred during file copy with NFS, are you using was looking for such a beast, but didn't know

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:17:58AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:01:06PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: Try adding rsize=8192,wsize=8192 to the mount options in fstab. that's what I used, much better than the default 1024, but still horrible;( -- groetjes, carel

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:26:05AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote using ncftp I get the expected 1.0+MBs transfer copying a large file into /dev/null. Quite reasonable on a 10Mbs ethernet considering ftp and tcp each adding their

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-12 Thread aphro
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: cfelli Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered. cfelli But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still cfelli wondering... Is the overhead mainly in the extra bytes to be sent, cfelli then a 100Mbs

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-11 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote Now that I've two machines I'm finally able to experience the full benefits of Debian GNU/Linux. Reading all I could find on the subject on the HAMM-cd's I managed to get nfs and nis working, exported /home and did some tests.

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-11 Thread aphro
the culprit is the lack of support for NFS on linux still, last i heard it was still very pooly maintained(amazing that SAMBA gets 1000x more attention then NFS!) there are some tweaks out there but don't expect a miracle, until the NFS code is cleaned up..its gonna be slow and buggy. its not as

Re: Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-11 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:01:06PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: Ethernet? or has nfs so much overhead (but ftp does okee)? or is the 486 the culprit? Try adding rsize=8192,wsize=8192 to the mount options in fstab. That should do the trick. Wouter -- Linux duckman 2.2.14 #1 Wed Jan 5

Slow NFS or slow NIC?

2000-01-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
Now that I've two machines I'm finally able to experience the full benefits of Debian GNU/Linux. Reading all I could find on the subject on the HAMM-cd's I managed to get nfs and nis working, exported /home and did some tests. using ncftp I get the expected 1.0+MBs transfer copying a large file