Re: slow NFSd on i386?

["Bob Bostwick" <bobb@digitechsystems.com>]

I shouldn't be answering, as I just started using OBSD, but I have had
problems with 3 separate box's with the 3c905 nics.  I am also using
nfsd and had precisely the same issue.  I also noticed that if these
cards are set to "100baseTX mediaopt full duplex" and plugged into a
switch, they will remain stuck "on" at 10Mb until you unplug the cable
and plug it back in.  I have links to some issues like this if you are
interested.  In any case switching the cards to Intel's fixed all three
box's.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] On Behalf
Of Brian Szymanski
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:24 PM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: slow NFSd on i386?


Am I the only one, or is nfsd *really* slow on OBSD? I've got a server
sitting here running nfsd (3.1, Pentium-II 266MHz, 128M ram), and it's
just piss slow. Tested with freebsd, openbsd, and linux clients (two
different machines, all including the server with 3c905 nics). Out of
curiousity I backed up /var and installed freebsd on it. When freebsd
runs
nfsd, the results are approximately 10 times faster. I know the freebsd
crew did some recent work tuning up & bugfixing their NFS code (I'm
assuming no-one's ported those changes over, might be a fun little
project
for my spare time)... Changing to TCP/UDP, the number of servers
started,
fscking with obscure sysctl's, etc. seems to make no difference
(although
I recall reading somewhere that tuning nfs is a black-magic of sorts).
No
error messages on either side, just sloooowness.
But mainly what I'm wondering is - am I the only one experiencing this
(admittedly minor) problem? Has anyone else found OBSD's nfsd to be
really
slow on the same hardware when compared to other OS's?
And yes, Mr. Goren, I RTFMd, STFAd, and POYDMGd. Thank you all for your
time.

Peace,
Brian