no body (no-one@no-where.com) wrote:
: I'm doing some nfs file transfers from one box to another over a
: CAT5-to-switch-to-CAT5 connection, both boxes connected at 100 Mb. I've
: noticed some of the files actually go at 2.5 Meg per second. Isn't that two
: and a half times the actual effective rate of 1 Meg per sec that this sort
: of connection should have? How is it happening?

: My guess is nfs is using compression of some sort, but I didn't think nfs
: had compression...

It is my understanding that NFS does not do compression. But your
1MB/s is 10base connection. If you play with window size options
under NFS, you should be able to get 4 - 6 MB/s on 100base network.