NFS mounting from Macs

[John Danner]

Can someone explain to me why a Mac using the same hard drive as a Sun386i
might be significantly slower as an NFS server?  There seems to be a 
significantly longer amount of time needed to transfer large files or to
save a large file under emacs, etc.  I have heard something like A/UX's
I/O buffer is too small and slows down transfers, but I would like to hear
from people with more A/UX expertise.  We are also thinking about making
a Mac our gateway to the Internet, but I am worried that we would 
experience a similar problem when doing large ftp's, although I doubt it
would be as painful as NFS.

John Danner
Tandem Computers
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