From: Seth Vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: RH 7.3 kernels and NFS performance
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 01:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
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> >      > I tried primarily v3, but I think I remember testing v2 as
> >      > well, with similar results.
> > 
> > If you are getting that performance with v3, then it does indeed sound
> > like a bug somewhere. Try with a stock 2.4.19 kernel instead...
> 
> I just tested things with a test kernel (2.4.18-7) from redhat, and it 
> sync write speeds were again way up there.  Problem fixed, as far as I'm 
> concerned... hopefully, they'll release an errata soon.

look carefully - the only patches in  2.4.18-X (where X >5) are to misc 
network drivers. 2.4.18-5 with some network cards (specifically eepros and 
3c905s) were terribly slow. 2.4.18-5e+ fix it.

-sv





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