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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:02:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS Performance issue against NetApp
Message-ID:  <753914397.1123782.1366844549491.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <8A0622F0-D9FD-493B-8BDF-82D1359463F3@hub.org>

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On 2013-04-24, at 14:18 , Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
> wrote:
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> > Am 24.04.2013 um 23:02 schrieb "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>:
> >
> >>
> >> On 2013-04-24, at 12:48 , Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> In the NFS mount options.
> >>> I've re-done my tests and it still seems to be a problem.
> >>
> >> 'k, just to clarify =E2=80=A6 your tests are with the Broadcom chipset=
(s)?
> >> I have an Intel card on order, so will run tests against that as
> >> soon as it gets here to see how it changes =E2=80=A6
> >>
> >
> >
> > No, with the intel card then.
> > Even then it was slow.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Just curious, but what are you running for tests? I noticed it
> >> visually, but other then using something like iozone21, not sure
> >> what is useful for coming up with a benchmark =E2=80=A6
> >
> >
> > I've just ran something like
> > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Dbla bs=3D1000000 count=3D1000
> >
> > on the nfsmount on the client.
> >
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> Here is what I'm seeing with the Broadcom card:
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> IOZONE performance measurements:
> 108561574 bytes/second for writing the file
> 95311340 bytes/second for reading the file
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> That is using 'ozone 1024' for a 1G file =E2=80=A6 and no mount / kernel
> settings =E2=80=A6
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> The problem isn't with the single file read / write though =E2=80=A6 the
> problem is when starting up an app server like jboss =E2=80=A6 my "refere=
nce
> server" is an old 32bit, 2 CPU + HT server with local drives =E2=80=A6 st=
art
> up takes, from jboss start to deploy:
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> JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final "Brontes" started in 87916ms
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> now, I do acknowledge that this is with local drives, so will always
> be faster the NFS drives =E2=80=A6 but =E2=80=A6
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> HP Proliant Gen8, 64bit, 16G of RAM, Oodles of CPU:
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 24 CPUs
> FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 6 core(s) x 2 SMT threads
> Brand new HP Procurve 2910al-24G =E2=80=A6 brand new 3xxx series NetApp
> running 8.1.2 =E2=80=A6 and everything pretty much idle (non production y=
et),
> and:
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> JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final "Brontes" started in 310249ms
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> So, over 4x slower?
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> Can you send me what your mount options are in /etc/fstab? I'd like to
> try that out and compare against the two above =E2=80=A6 and I do have th=
e
> Intel card on the way, so see if that makes a difference =E2=80=A6
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Along with rsize,wsize you might want to try increasing readahead. The
default is only 1.

rick

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