Re: NFS performances

[Jan Stary <hans%stare.cz@localhost>]

On May 12 11:35:03, jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost wrote:
> On 5/12/14, 10:03 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a NFS setup with both NetBSD 6 client and server over a gigabit
> > network. Theperformance seems week, even whle client, server and
> > network are almost idle.
> >
> > The test: time dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024k count=100
> >
> > Done on the NFS server itself:
> >    5.31s real 0.00s user 0.39s system
> >
> > Done over NFS:
> >    9.82s real 0.00s user 0.12s system

What exactly does "over NFS" mean here? The client's
/dev/zero gets written to server:/mnt/file, right?

Maybe I am missing something obvious, but in the first run,
nothing is sent over the network, and in the second run,
100m is sent over the network.