> Client, Macintosh G4, OS X 10.4.11 > > NFS Mount is done with the following options... > -P (privileged ports) > intr > -r=32768 > -w=32768 > I tried doubling the size of the read/write windows to 65536 but it > seemed to make little difference. > > Task, Read / Write 648 Megabyte Photoshop file (PSD) > Win2K = Win2K server (slow), RAID 5, Symantec EndPoint (ugh), retiring > this server > AFP = Netatalk from new CentOS Server > SMB = Samba from new CentOS Server > NFS = see above options, same CentOS Server > > Copy To Win2K AFP SMB NFS > 1m40.053s 0m22.566s 0m23.817s 2m11.849s > > Copy From Win2K AFP SMB NFS > 1m34.478s 0m20.709s 0m20.823s 0m23.487s > > NFS read performance was slightly slower than AFP/SMB but the write > performance was poor. I had a similar problem with a freebsd box awhile ago and the solution was to mount an nfs share with much lower r/w buffer size (2048?). There also was something in the logs related to nfs server timeouts or server not responding. HTH