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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:46:46 +0100
From:      Mark Schouten <mark@tuxis.nl>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Slow nfsd write performance, tweaks needed
Message-ID:  <2826701214-10966@kerio.tuxis.nl>

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Hi,


I am in the process of switching from a ZFS On Linux-based NFS-server to a =
FreeBSD-based NFS-server. The FreeBSD implementation of ZFS is way superiou=
r over ZoL, and the box serves as storage for a virtualizationplatform, so =
stability is welcome. :)


The box is stable, but performs terribly. Surely, I'm doing something wrong=
, but I would like some tips and tricks to speed things up.




Here's my setup:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz (HyperThreading is enabled)
RAM: 64GB
NIC: 2x igb in lagg0 (loadbalancing)
Disks:=C2=A0

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da0-3 are 1TB WDs
da4-5 are 240GB=C2=A0Samsung SSD 840s


Here's (related) info from rc.conf.

nfs_server_enable=3D"YES"
nfs_server_flags=3D"-u -t -n 128"
rpcbind_enable=3D"YES"
mountd_enable=3D"YES"
rpc_lockd_enable=3D"YES"
rpc_statd_enable=3D"YES"




I have compression enabled on all the ZFS-filesystems, and jumboframes are =
enabled on the nics.


As soon as one of the (Linux) clients start to do some IO, NFS responsetime=
s go up bigtime (yesterday up to 13 seconds), while the hardware is pretty =
much idle, I must be doing something very wrong. I'm mostly a Linux-guy, so=
 any hit with a FreeBSD cluebat is appreciated.


Regards,


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Kerio Operator in de Cloud? https://www.kerioindecloud.nl/
Mark Schouten  | Tuxis Internet Engineering
KvK:=C2=A061527076=C2=A0| http://www.tuxis.nl/
T: 0318 200208 | info@tuxis.nl=

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