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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:18:08 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS Performance issue against NetApp
Message-ID:  <20130424231808.GA20882@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <4E817B3C-6524-4F7F-943C-8C707BCED610@hub.org>
References:  <753914397.1123782.1366844549491.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <4E817B3C-6524-4F7F-943C-8C707BCED610@hub.org>

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:08:24PM -0700, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> On 2013-04-24, at 16:02 , Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> 
> >> 
> > Along with rsize,wsize you might want to try increasing readahead. The
> > default is only 1.
> 
> Stupid question on this, possibly, but are the current defaults "sane" anymore, or residual from 'the old days'?   Like, I've read in many places where you should raise rsize/wsize … in what circumstances would leaving as the defaults make sense?

>From what I can discern, the defaults on stable/9 (for an NFS client)
are 8192 -- see sys/nfsclient/nfs.h, NFS_WSIZE and NFS_RSIZE.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@koitsu.org |
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