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- From: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy)
- Subject: (oops) Amiga TCP/IP NFS speeds > 94 kbs?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.200422.23979@watson.ibm.com>
- Sender: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy)
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:04:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.200219.14376@watson.ibm.com>, sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
- |> I installed Amiga TCP/IP on my Amiga and started playing around with it. I
- |> soon discovered that my NFS throughput was something less than desirable.
- |> 94 kb/s via disktest. I changed the max sizes but that changed nothing. I am
- |> getting <2 ms ping times so I don't think the connection is faulty.
- |> What are the speeds that other people are getting from their machines,
- |> before I start ripping out things, or getting a sniffer to diagnose this
- |> further.
- |>
- |> My setup is as follows...
- |> Amiga 3000 w/ 10 MB Ram & 200 MB HD connected via ethernet to an IBM PC/RT
- |> running BSD4.3 with 16 MB of Ram and 1 GB of disk. I have 8 nfsd & biod
- |> running on the RT, I have increased NFS maxread & maxwrite to 16k but got no
- |> discernible change. Am I missing something obvious? I have yet to do a total
- |> througput test using ftp (I didn't think about that until after I was at
- |> work.) so I will have more data later.
- |>
- |> PS> These two machine are connected through BNC and are the only two devices
- |> on the ether.
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