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Re: NFS blocksize
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Oct 9 21:17:33 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au (Richard Gooch)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 09:41:05 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510090032.KAA13995@vindaloo.rp.csiro.au> from "Richard Gooch" at Oct 9, 95 10:32:24 am
> Hi, all. I can't remember whether or not the old problem with NFS
> transfers with buffersize != 1k still exists. Currently I mount NFS
> filesystems with the default options (buffersize = 1k) and the
> performance is *quite* poor. Can someone tell me if this was fixed?
As of about 1.1.3 kmalloc() was fixed to allow big allocations, as of
about 1.1.50 or so NFS large blocks works right. I use 8K to sunos
without problems except when using a 3c501 where it consistently misses
some of the fragments each time.
Alan
