From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 13 22:21:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d013.dhcp212-198-27.noos.fr [212.198.27.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5218637B404 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 22:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herbelot.com (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.5]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA74094; Tue, 14 May 2002 07:21:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3CE09EE5.4F92B8BB@herbelot.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:21:41 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Hoskins Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS server reccomendations... References: <20020513163658.G43054-100000@snafu.adept.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, As the SMP architecture of 4.x is a bit simplistic : only one processor can run the kernel at any one time, there is NO gain using an SMP machine for I/O (disk or network) Thus, an SMP machine may not be the best choice for an NFS server (exchanging one processor for even more RAM is a better bet). TfH Mike Hoskins wrote: > > Just grabbed a new Dell 4600 to replace an aging NFS server. I'm done > with the 4.5-R install. This box does NFS for our Dev and QA > environments, so often seens quite a bit of load. I'll be doing SMP, > and was wondering, > > a) Would I be better off grabbing the latest security > enhancements for 4.5, or just waiting for 4.6-R? > b) Any NFS/SMP-specific kernel tuning? (Beside what's found > on freebsd.org...) > > I know there are a lot of NFS gurus around. :) > > Later, > -Mike > > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message