why nfs is so slow?

[Mike Tancsa]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:02:07 +0100 (CET), in
sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>i'm getting about 6MB/s with NFS (100Mbit cross-connect ethernet), while 
>over 9.5 by FTP.
>
>nfs is set to work over TCP.

What mount options are you using ?  

I use something like the following

172.18.23.34:/backup/backup2 /offsite-backup nfs
rw,-r=32768,-w=32768,tcp,noauto 

in fstab

	---Mike


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