Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity and NFS

[Joshua H. <jo...@re...>]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:15, Dave Fancella wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:05 am, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> > Dave,
> >
> > In a nutshell, yes, Audacity is totally tuned for working on a local drive.
> >
> > However, you may be able to get better results by changing the
> > block size.  I'm not even sure whether larger or smaller blocks
> > would give you better performance - it depends on whether
> > throughput or latency is the main bottleneck with NFS, and I'm
> > not sure.
> 
> Um, I'm working on it.  My CVS snapshot is from December 1st of last year, is 
> this going to have the blockfile rewrites that you guys did, or is it just 
> before that?

No, the blockfile rewrite was committed in early January.

I've heard that you can get better throughput over NFS using the options
wsize=8192,rsize=8192.  It's been a while since I read that though.

Josh