Re: Poor NFS client write performance Linux->Solaris

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:52:57 +0100 (BST)


> servers. One gives a 'poor' but not so bad performance compared
> to the other one (client is 2.2.6-ac1, 2.2.7-ac1 or 2.2.9) :
> 1400809 bytes/second for writing the file
> 1640707 bytes/second for reading the file

Do you have the block size set to 8K (or a multiple thereof) - Linux defaults
to 4K which will do badly with Solaris unless tuned

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