Re: NFS / network performance

2001-09-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:23:31AM -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote: ... 8 port hub at 10 mb I've seen huge improvements in performance replacing hubs with switches, particularly where there's a lot of NFS usage. The first time we did this was about four years ago in an office where they had about

Re: NFS / network performance

2001-09-09 Thread Ian Marchak
Tim Wunder wrote: I spent much of this afternoon enabling NFS between my son's PC (Mandrak 8.0, K6-2-500, 128MB RAM, kernel 2.4.3-mdk) and mine (Caldera 3.1, Athlon 950, 384MB RAM, kernel 2.4.9) and performance is slow, at best. We have 10 Megabit ethernet with only the 2 PCs and our

Re: NFS / network performance

2001-09-09 Thread Gordon McCrae
Ian Marchak wrote: SNIP If you are running a 10Mb 4 port hub, you'll probably never get more than 2.5 megabits of xfer no matter what you do. A hub divides the total bandwidth (10Mb/s in your case) between all the ports evenly. A 10Mb/s switch on the other hand allocates 10Mb/s **per

NFS / network performance

2001-09-08 Thread Tim Wunder
I spent much of this afternoon enabling NFS between my son's PC (Mandrak 8.0, K6-2-500, 128MB RAM, kernel 2.4.3-mdk) and mine (Caldera 3.1, Athlon 950, 384MB RAM, kernel 2.4.9) and performance is slow, at best. We have 10 Megabit ethernet with only the 2 PCs and our gateway router (freesco --

Re: NFS / network performance

2001-09-08 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Saturday 08 September 2001 08:26 pm, you wrote: I spent much of this afternoon enabling NFS between my son's PC (Mandrak 8.0, K6-2-500, 128MB RAM, kernel 2.4.3-mdk) and mine (Caldera 3.1, Athlon 950, 384MB RAM, kernel 2.4.9) and performance is slow, at best. We have 10 Megabit ethernet

Re: NFS / network performance

2001-09-08 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Rick Sivernell chose to write: On Saturday 08 September 2001 08:26 pm, you wrote: I spent much of this afternoon enabling NFS between my son's PC (Mandrak 8.0, K6-2-500, 128MB RAM, kernel 2.4.3-mdk) and mine (Caldera 3.1, Athlon 950, 384MB RAM, kernel 2.4.9) and performance is

Re: NFS / network performance

2001-09-08 Thread David Aikema
On September 8, 2001 06:26 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: From his PC, he can mount the NFS shares and navigate the direcotries, even play some of the MP3s I have on my box. Directory navigation with Konqueror is WAY slow, though, and if he tries to play one of the .WAVs I have, performance is choppy