slow uploads in panther
 

here's a possibly related experience: we have a bunch of DP 1G gigabit quicksilver macs (all jaguar), and some G5s, and had an export off our linux server configured in netinfo manager so:

name servername:/anexport
type nfs
opts -b
dir /servermount

(i did try some other documented methods of automount, but they either didnt work or hung the machine)

all was good, no lockups, fast up- and downloads etc.
THEN on panther, same setup, downloads are ok, but now uploads about 1/25th the speed of downloads. Brutally slow! Same problem on G5, G4, different switches, different NIC (adaptec, built-in, didn't matter), gigabit and 100Base lines....

as a test, apple-k on the client side, then smb://servername/anexport and uploads are fine and fast again! but this doesn't seem to be possible as an automount in netinfo manager, contrary to documentation. And the smb is strict windows filename conventions, so mac people are not thrilled with not being able to @#$%^/.

haven't tried the full/half-duplex settings, but the smb test tells me it is NOT a NIC setting....

shrugs and @#$%^/
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