nfs vs. ftp

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

I managed to get NFS sharing between my iMac and my Gentoo box, with the iMac as the client, and the Gentoo box as the NFS server. I was pretty excited until I saw the file transfer speeds. Prior to this, I had been using FTP to move files back and forth (here my Gentoo box was the FTP client, and my iMac was the FTP server), which was getting speeds of 3-4x faster than file transfer via NFS.

Is this in line with other people's experiences?
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ctford0 · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2003 5:46 am Post subject:

Its normally a good practice to try to optimize your nfs connection between machines. Operating from two completely different arch's I would imagine this would be especially critical for you. I'm assuming that you have already done this per the NFS Howto?

Chris

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

I played around with changing rsize and wsize, and the results I got were the best that I was able to achieve.

If there is anything else that I can tune, I'd like to know about it.
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ctford0 · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:25 pm Post subject:

Are you using nfs v2 or v3? I'm not very sure how speed is effected by changing versions.

sorry im not more help

chris

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

I am not sure which version of nfs I was using, but it was whatever the latest ebuild version is. I wound up uninstalling the nfs packages for now and going back to using ftp for file transfers. Most of my file transfers are for backup purposes, so ftp'ing a whole batch of them works fine for this purpose.
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ctford0 · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:02 pm Post subject:

you nfs server version depends on what you have compiled in your linux kernel. that is where it is enable, the programs that you are talking about are just the nfs-utils...

chris

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

As it turns out, I don't have NFS v3 support enabled in my kernel. I'll recompile the kernel this weekend and see if it helps.
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