[rescue] Q: OpenVMS NFS performance questions

[Thomas Gallaway]

Hey

Looks like you have a netowk issue. Duplex mismatch? Kinda sounds like 
it.
Is the swirch set to fdx ad you nic only to hdx or something like 
that...

Cja,
      thomas

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 7:30PM -0500, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
>  Hi y'all.
>
>  I just set up an alphastation 255 running the hobbyist version of 
> OpenVMS
>  (7.2), I wanted to set up the machine as an NFS server... but somehow 
> I am
>  getting terrible performance, specially on writes. The machine is 
> using a
>  DE500 for 100Mb connection to the rest of the network, but performance 
> is
>  just not acceptable. For example writing a 128MB file set, it took 
> almost
>  1hr!!!! WTF? This is like .3Mbps performance on a 100Mbps link!!! Not 
> even
>  DSL speeds....
>
>  I did a sysgen, so I assumed that it tuned all the parameters, and I
>  uderstand that there has to be a NFS => openVMS file system conversion 
> (I
>  am using a container for the NFS share), but this is a 233Mhz alpha
>  performing like a piece of turd. So far I am less than impressed with
>  OVMS, does anyone use their VMS machines to serve files over NFS to 
> teh
>  rest of their networks? If so what are the tricks (I followed DEC's 
> online
>  ref instructions) and performance issues.
>
>  Cheers.
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