Re: tar through IBM NFSD freezes OS/2

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From: John-Marc Chandonia, , ,
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:29

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In article <ignacij.714944187@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu>, ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:
> I used tar on a Sun to backup an HPFS disk connected remotely by NFSD in
> IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1. Previously, this broke down NFSD if buffer size was 4k. 
> With buffer size 512 to 1k, tar works for about an hour, backing up
> about 40 Mbytes, and then the system freezes. Ctrl-Alt-Del does now work
> and the system has to be reset. 
> Did anybody have similar experience?

I simply have the problem of *slow* NFS; copying a 10M file to a networked
drive took about an hour.  Using ftp to perform the same transfer
takes less than a minute.  The destination system is convex unix.

I've tried adjusting the buffer size to 1k to no avail; has anybody
got any other performance tips?  Does anybody have anything special
running on the unix side?

JMC
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