[KLUG Members] Two questions.

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

The first is dumb: 
1.  in /etc/fstab, the # sign denotes a comment, right?

2.  Does anyone know of any hard evidence (I've found some heresay and
conjecture, those are kinds of evidence) that linux boxes read and write slowly to
NFS mounts exported from BSD machines.  I've got a few linux machines
writing to an OpenBSD server, exporting it's RAID to those servers. Writes and
reads to the NFS drive are slow. Far slower than they should be.  The network
environment is switched 100Mbit, so we should get at least 6 MB/sec, right? 
Heck, I can get 8 or 9 on my hub using SAMBA, for goodness' sakes.  Anyway, we
are languishing around 2 MB/sec on some, whereas on others, we have bumped it
up a bit.  So far, the best block size is 8192 bytes.  standard on our boxes
is 2048 (yeah, that's pretty small). 


I'm flabbergasted.  I thought we would get better performance from this, and
we are not.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Should I just throw in some
more network speed?  It's quite a price tag for more speed...

adam



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