Re: Transfer Speeds - Why the diffrence?

[Steeve McCauley <steeve oneguycoding com>]

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 08:35, Angel Gabriel wrote:
> When I install a very basic 7.3 install via NFS, it's takes about 4
> minutes, and takes up 386M exactly. But, when I transfer a directory
> containing about 400M of data, it can take up to 20 minutes. The
> directory being transfered is exported via NFS, the same as the RPM's.
> how come such a diffrence in the trasfer speeds?

Are you mounting with 8K read/write buffer size?

mount nfsbox:/mnt/pnt /mnt/nfsbox -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3

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