Poor NFS Performance (was Re: Managing a network of UNIX workstations)

[Ian! D. Allen [CGL]]

In article <1425 at atha.AthabascaU.CA> lyndon at cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>Have you adjusted the retry, timeout, and write-size values for your
>NFS mounts? Given enough wobbling of these parameters I have been able
>to sucessfully use a 3b2 (!!) as an NFS server.

With what performance penalty, compared to running a "make" with the
files available locally?  Running a "make" on our VS3200/3.0 served by
our unloaded VAX8600/BSD4.3 took at least twice as long as running it
with all the files on the VS3200 itself.  Are you saying you can "tweak"
this down to something more reasonable?  Examples?
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