why nfs is so slow?

2007-12-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i'm getting about 6MB/s with NFS (100Mbit cross-connect ethernet), while over 9.5 by FTP. nfs is set to work over TCP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: why nfs is so slow?

2007-12-11 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i'm getting about 6MB/s with NFS (100Mbit cross-connect ethernet), while over 9.5 by FTP. nfs is set to work over TCP. To my mind, this is because NFS is stateless because of being designed to share filesystem on a whole local network. Thus,

Re: why nfs is so slow?

2007-12-11 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:02:07 +0100 (CET), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: i'm getting about 6MB/s with NFS (100Mbit cross-connect ethernet), while over 9.5 by FTP. nfs is set to work over TCP. What mount options are you using ? I use something like the following

Re: why nfs is so slow?

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Smith
On Dec 11, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:02:07 +0100 (CET), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: i'm getting about 6MB/s with NFS (100Mbit cross-connect ethernet), while over 9.5 by FTP. nfs is set to work over TCP. What mount options are you using