[ILUG] Bigger pipes...

[David Murphy]

Quoting <20010425174109.B70E02BD25 at thalassa.netnoteinc.com>
by Justin Mason <jm at netnoteinc.com>:

> 
> kevin lyda said:
> 
> > since nfs allows for caching, uses larger buffers and uses udp, i'm a
> > bit lost on the "extra overhead" argument.  not sure who mentioned it,
> > but i'm curious as to a justification for the comment.
> 
> 'twas me...
> 
> It's actually old advice from Solaris, so it may not apply to Linux as
> much, but basically, it makes sense:
> 
>   - let a process on one machine read the file sequentially, which is more
>     likely to be optimised than the NFS-read case (only slightly more
>     likely, but...);
> 
>   - then use TCP, which, I thought, was more likely to be good for big
>     blats over a local LAN than UDP.
> 
> Might be wrong about the latter though.  (and judging by Kenn's results,
> yes I am ;)

I just tried with a pair of Solaris systems, which default to NFS3
over TCP, and NFS was still faster than netcat.

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