FreeBSD NFS Client, Windows 2003 NFS server

[Bruce Evans]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Harti Brandt wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Harti Brandt wrote:

> HB>Ok. I did a very short test (no time to do much more). Read performance
> HB>with dd if=/nfs/bigfile of=/dev/null bs=4k is around 9MByte/sec. Write
> HB>performance with dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs/bigfile bs=4k is 4MByte/sec.
> HB>
> HB>Client is something around 1GHz with a 100Mbps link. Fileserver is a
> HB>double proc Xeon with a 1Gbps link. The Server has a load of around 30%
> HB>(from the antivirus scanner).
> HB>
> HB>72Mbps on a 100Mbps link looks actually ok for me. I've no FreeBSD on a
> HB>Gigabit link to test with.
> HB>
> HB>If you want I could try to do a buildworld.
>
> Ok. To answer my own mail. A buildworld with a local /usr/src takes 2:50h
> on that machine, with /usr/src on the W2003 server 3:50h. Looks not that bad.

Hmm, with such slow machines, network/nfs latency shouldn't be much of a
problem.  Makeworld of a ~5.2 world with a Turion X2 2GHz takes 14:24m here.
About 1m of this time is extra for nfs.  It took a bit of work to reduce
the nfs overhead from a few minutes (about 5?) to only 1.

Bruce