per engelbrecht wrote: > Han Boetes wrote: > > per engelbrecht wrote: > > > recently had a problem with a NFS server. Lousy performance > > > when getting data (not putting) from most clients (but not > > > all) until they discovered diffs in size of the > > > transmit/receive bufferes. When fixed users felt like going > > > from walking to flying both ways. > > > They do not use OpenBSD but the have different arch and OS > > > as well i.e. might be a similar/related problem. > > > I read an article recently about the tux kernel hackers > > > working on a "auto sensing" feature for the upcomming > > > 2.6.whatever dealing with this. The test result was quite > > > impressive with performance gains x 10-20 and above. > > > > Sounds interesting. But searching on google doesn't show any > > usefull links. Nor did I find out how to read/set the > > transmit/receive buffers for either OS. > > Can't find the article (typical!). Found this though; > http://dsd.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html > It describe the topic yes, but it's not "spot on".
Ow that will do fine. I also found comparable sysctls for OpenBSD. I'll examine it in the morning, when my brains work again. Thanks for looking this up for me, I appreciate it. # Han
