Let me know if you think I could improve these values, but, I advise anyone with a serious NFS deploymant to use something similar to the following: kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152 kern.ipc.somaxconn=8192 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=1 net.inet.udp.recvspace=65536 net.inet.udp.maxdgram=57344 vfs.nfs.async=1 In my benchmarks, these values were ideal for NFS. Please send email to seanc@FreeBSD.org with updates or comments on these values.