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Date:      Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:30:02 +0100
From:      Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Terrible NFS performance under 9.2-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <20140210233002.GA2103@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
In-Reply-To: <2059385169.3089582.1391993655512.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca>
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Rick Macklem:

> > When I switched my desktop box from FreeBSD 7 to 9, NFS read
> > performance from my media server (running OpenBSD) became extremely
> > poor.  I couldn't even stream a movie any longer.  Disabling TSO
> > on the nfe(4) interface had no effect.  My workaround was to switch
> > from a TCP mount to a UDP one.  The problem has persisted to FreeBSD
> > 10.
> > 
> > I can now report that switching to [rw]size=32768 with a TCP mount
> > also works fine.
> > 
> If it is convenient, trying a 64K TCP mount with a kernel that has the
> attached patch (which makes it use page size clusters and reduces the
> # of segments to 18) to see if it works well, would be interesting.

No, this works very poorly.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de



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