Re: NFS under load?

Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> MTU = 8192
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to zephyr, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 640 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [ 3] local 192.168.0.2 port 59217 connected with 192.168.0.1 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
> [ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec 373 MBytes 310 Mbits/sec

  ^ That is the speed of an X2 3800+ w/ 2gb RAM Ubuntu sending to a
Slackware server

Client connecting to shadowgate, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 640 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.0.1 port 34600 connected with 192.168.0.2 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec 513 MBytes 427 Mbits/sec

  ^ That is the speed of an XP 2500+ w/ 1gb RAM Slackware sending to an
Ubuntu server.

For some reason, Slackware on lesser hardware can send at a good clip
faster (a whole fast-ethernet 100Mbits faster plus change). The
Slackware machine has the 2.6.20 kernel vs. the 2.6.17 under Ubuntu.
Received on Sat Jul 7 00:49:29 2007