Re: Pentium-90 box for Linux?

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From: John Saunders
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 02:08

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David J. Hughes (bambi@Bond.edu.au) wrote:

> I hate to say it but the reason your NFS performance is bad isn't
> because of your hardware.  Try running FreeBSD 2 on the same gear and
> you'll see NFS performance more than double (seriously).  I was porting
> mSQL to both Linux and FreeBSD a while back using an NFS mounted source
> tree onto a Pentium and with FreeBSD I didn't even notice it wasn't
> local.  With Linux I just about shot myself waiting for the
> compilation.  The slow-down was that dramatic.

I've heard this so many times that it must be true. Does anybody know where
the bottle neck is. i.e. is it

1) Linux networking.
2) Linux NFS client.
3) NFS server.
4) Ethernet drivers.

Because if it's the NFS server then using the BSD one should provide the
same speed. But I have noticed ftp speed under Linux isn't as fast as what
I expected. I get about 200K/s to 300K/s over unloaded ethernet bus. So
maybe the TCP/IP stack under Linux is a bit slower than FreeBSD.
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From: johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders)
Subject: Re: Pentium-90 box for Linux?
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