Dear Bitrig Community, This seems like an opportune time to ask a question that has been on our group's radar for a few months now. It concerns the possibility (or interest) in adding performance improvements to the forked OpenBSD NFS code?
We are a small group of BSD users in East Africa aiming to use portable computers to serve educational media in classrooms and other settings. At the moment we are using FreeBSD as it has excellent throughput via NFS and of course ZFS is quite useful. However, many laptops (which we will aim to use as servers and workstations in the future for some locations) have better support under the Bitrig system. Being able to reliably suspend/resume for example, is extremely important in settings where electricity is not as reliable as it could be. Several months of testing of OpenBSD 5.5 and 5.6 have revealed that NFS speeds are simply too slow at the moment to serve HD video for multiple users irrespective of the combination of NICs, routers or other hardware. We have also tested Bitrig 1.0 and it too has the same issue. In short, the question is whether NFS improvements are on the teams radar either now or in the future? Any information concerning this would be very much appreciated! Furthermore, it is nice to learn of your project and the work that you are doing! Michael
