NFS Performance issue against NetApp

[Graham Allan]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 02:05:38PM -0700, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> The thing is, I'm not convinced it is a NFS related issue … there are *so* many other variables involved … it could be something with the network stack … it could be something with the scheduler … it could be … hell, it could be like the guy states in that blog posting (http://antibsd.wordpress.com/) and be the compiler changes … 

I'm just watching interestedly from the sidelines, and I hesitate to ask
because it seems too obvious - maybe I missed something - but have you
run both tests (Linux and FreeBSD) purely with local disk, to get a
baseline independent of NFS?

Graham