linux as a workstation

Sean picasso@madflower.com
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:16:45 -0400 (EDT)


NFS on Linux is doggy, compared to Solaris etc.

http://www.zeroconf.org/
is kind of what we are waiting for service discovery.


On 15 Aug 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
>
> > [2] I've timed NFS vs SSH, and even with the CPU overhead of
> > encrypting all the data, SSH was noticably faster... ;)
>
> NFS should be faster than that.  Maybe you should try NFSv3 or
> tune the block sizes.
>