ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) (11/30/89)
We have a few PC's connected via thin ethernet to a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 3.5.1 that has a separate partition on its SCSI hard drive set aside as a file server for the MSDOS users using PC-NFS version 3.0. Whenever someone attempts to use a pipe in a DOS command line with their default drive set to an NFS drive, the server's disk will begin thrashing, and depending on the length of the data stream, will tie up a large part of the network bandwith for a long period of time. Is this because PC-NFS is sending the stream over the network with packets containing a single byte of data each? If so, can this behavior be modified? -- Ben Thornton packet: WD5HLS @ KB5PM Internet: ben@val.com Video Associates Labs uucp: ...!cs.utexas.edu!val!ben Austin, TX fidonet: 1:382/40 - The Antenna Farm BBS
geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) (11/30/89)
In article <1989Nov29.160129.4924@val.com> ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) writes:
-We have a few PC's connected via thin ethernet to a Sun 3/60
-running SunOS 3.5.1 that has a separate partition on its SCSI
-hard drive set aside as a file server for the MSDOS users
-using PC-NFS version 3.0.
-
-Whenever someone attempts to use a pipe in a DOS command line with
-their default drive set to an NFS drive, the server's disk will
-begin thrashing, and depending on the length of the data stream,
-will tie up a large part of the network bandwith for a long period
-of time.
Fixed in 3.0.1, which has been shipping since the summer. Call
Sun's CSD for an upgrade.
Geoff Arnold, PCDS Group, | Quote of the week: "Shut up and mind your
Sun Microsystems Inc. | Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner."
Internet: geoff@East.Sun.COM | (Theodore A.Kaldis, <kaldis@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Disclaimer: Obviously.... | on Nov. 22 1989, in reply to Joe Nunes.)