Re: Transfer Speeds - Why the diffrence?

[Angel Gabriel <badmangabriel lycos co uk>]

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 15:43, Steeve McCauley wrote:
> 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
> 

What would the above achieve, would that have faster read times?