Re: Kernel 2.6.15.1 + NFS is 4 times slower than FTP!?

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 13:55 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Did you get my other e-mail?
>
> $ cp file /nfs/destination
> $ lftp> put file


Yes, but how big a file is this? Is it significantly larger than the
amount of cache memory on the server? As I said, if ftp is failing to
sync the file to disk, then you may be comparing apples and oranges.

Cheers,
Trond

> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 13:38 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> >> Writing from SRC(A) -> DST(B).
> >> I have not tested reading, but as I recall there were similar speed issues
> >> going the other way too, although I have not tested it recently.
> >
> > How were you testing it? I'm not sure that ftp will actually sync your
> > file to disk (whereas that is pretty much mandatory for an NFS server),
> > so unless you are transferring very large files, you would expect to see
> > a speed difference due to caching of writes by the server.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Trond
> >

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