Hello Hilary,
Sunday August 24 1997, Hilary Luk wrote to All:
 HL> I did a simple test on my LAN. When I copy a large file to the
 HL> NFS drive mounted under OS/2, the transfer rate less than 300k/sec.
 HL> While I ftp to the server will get more than 1M/sec.
This sound somewhat familiar :-) Try increasing the read/write blocksize of 
your nfsmount to 8192 bytes.  If it is too small, the same block must be 
transferred over the net several times.
We need to do the same thing between Linux and Solaris/Irix.
Regards,
  Thorbjoern
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