Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Slow write performance on FreeBSD 2.2.5, 1.4b2
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 23 1998 - 16:47:48 EST
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Gary Teter wrote:
> I'm having troubles with my installation of netatalk-1.4b2 on FreeBSD
> 2.2.5:
>
> Read performance from the server is great, but write performance is
> really, really lousy. The client is a PowerMac 604e/200 clone, 10baseT
> network. (Actually on a large file it's great for the first 1.8MB or so,
> then it seems to pause for big chunks of time.)
>
> I've installed the FreeBSD 2.2.5 netatalk patch that fixed the broken
> Appletalk support in the kernel.
>
> Someone suggested changing the definition of ddp_recvspace in
> sys/netatalk/ddp_usrreq.c to a higher value, so I changed it to 50 * 600.
Doh! That kills my favorite suggestion!
> Any suggestions would be >greatly< appreciated!
>
> PS: I have to admit, I'm coming at this from the Mac side of things, so
> I'm not as familiar with Unix conventions as I'd like to be. (But I
> suppose that's probably typical of people who need netatalk...)
>
> PPS: I never could get the netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2 set of patches to
> work right, mainly because I can't quite figure out how to install the
> tcp wrapper stuff properly (I think).
Then just turn off the tcprapper support. :-)
Take care,
Bill
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