Samuel Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I lack much experience with nfs but I suspect I should be seeing much >> better transfer rates here. Wondering if a few posters could post a >> timed transfer of know amount of data >> This is from a rh9 to yarrow (fully updated) I'll show exports file >> at the end: >> root # du -sh $rea/News/agent/nntp/enews* >> 169M /home/reader/News/agent/nntp/enews.newsguy.com >> root # time cp -a $rea/News/agent/nntp/enews*/ /EXP_root >> real 12m26.120s >> user 0m0.340s >> sys 0m13.990s >> So 169MB in 12 1/2 minutes. >> cat /etc/exports: >> / reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash) >> /home reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash) >> /var reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash) >> /mnt/exp reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash) >> /usr reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash) >> /tmp reader(rw,async,insecure_locks,no_root_squash) >> > First do you have example speeds? > What does /proc/mount say? Nothing here: cat /proc/mount No such file or directory > What does "mii-tool eth0" or "ethtool > eth0" say? Are you dropping packets? (ifconfig and ping ) root # mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok eth1: no link ================================== root # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Half Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: puag Wake-on: g Link detected: yes ifconfig reading taken during write across nfs: root # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:FA:4B:13 inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2023545 errors:50 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:50 TX packets:1867748 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:6765 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:983047766 (937.5 Mb) TX bytes:454217274 (433.1 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdf00 Memory:ff9fc000-ff9fc038 To my inexperienced eye those look normal.. are they?