> don't think that's the whole problem anyway. I saw a reference that
> mentioned slow NFS writes to Sun Solaris disks, but there was no
> solution. I know it is possible because we have numerous Suns and SGIs
> that perform NFS writes to each other very quickly. I would like very
> much to use Linux, but it is very difficult to use if it takes 6-? times
> as long to write a file. (I didn't put the time with the default RH
> 2.0.36 kernel, because it's still working on writing the 16MB test
> file...) Any help here would be very much appreciated.
The 2.2.2ac series kernels are much faster than 2.2.2 when writing to 8K
page size systems. Be aware that it is in the -ac patches because its not
yet quite ready to go to Linus (and since Linus has been fixing other
stuff in 2.2.3pre, it'll take a bit more merging now).
Alan
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