Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:39:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: LD and NFS
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The other day I was asked to install DJGPP on a networked disk under 
NFS.  After the installation (I did have some problems but the DJGPP FAQ 
God--what's his name?--helped a lot ;-) I tried to compile a small 
throw-away program, and it took way too long.

To make a long story short: stubediting ld.exe makes a lot of difference,
like somebody already reported on c.o.m.d some time ago.  See for
yourselves: 

	Transfer buffer size            Link time
		16k			  1min 07sec
		32k			  2min
		64k			  12sec

On a local disk this takes 10 seconds.  Can anybody explain why 32k and 
16k are such losers under NFS?  I can barely see the difference on local 
disks (it goes from 10 to 9 seconds if the transfer buffer is set to 64k).