Orphaned Response

[carroll at m.cs.uiuc.edu]

/* Written  6:31 pm  Mar 18, 1990 by plocher at sally.Sun.COM in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.i386 */
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| >> We're experiencing some problems with a network implementation on an intel
| >> 320 running System V/386. The performance is dog slow,  [ ... ]
| Additionally, the problem often manifests itself under NFS, when trying to read
| files. If the file is longer than a certain (small, roughly a few K), nothing
| will be read, while small files will be read just fine. I will get a
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Aha!

It sounds like you need to set rsize=1024,wsize=1024 in your /etc/fstab file
for all your NFS devices...
[ ... ]
This *is* mentioned in Wollongong's 386 TCP/IP & NFS manuals, I don't know
about LAI,ISC, Everex, or Intel...

   -John Plocher
/* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.i386 */

Yes, that's the ticket. Tried it out and it works now. Sigh...I like 386/ix,
but there seem to be a number of pitfalls like this, where the solution is
trivial but not mentioned anywhere in the manuals. Thank Turing for the net.

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