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Date:      Wed, 1 May 2013 21:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Initial NFS Test: Linux vs FreeBSD (769% slower)
Message-ID:  <971747745.58619.1367458184334.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1032981589.58481.1367457568966.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>

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I wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On 2013-04-30, at 05:29 , Rick Macklem < rmacklem@uoguelph.ca >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> >
> > If you want, you can email me startup.pcap as an attachment and I'll
> > take
> > a look, but wireshark is pretty good at spotting TCP retransmits,
> > etc.
> >
> >
> > 'k, at 4.x Gig in size, doubt your mail server will handle me
> > sending
> > this to you :) Even compressed, it was going over 400M =E2=80=A6 I can =
if
> > you
> > want it though =E2=80=A6
> >
> >
> > Baring that, if you want to give me pointers as to what I should be
> > looking for? I have Wireshark installed / and the startup.pcap data
> > loaded =E2=80=A6 the only thing that is jumping out at me is a bunch of
> > lines
> > where 'Length' is 32982 while most are 218 =E2=80=A6 highlighted in 'bl=
ack
> > background, red font' =E2=80=A6 for example:
> >
> > The big one is a write RPC and it will be a little more than 32768,
> > if
> > you've set wsize=3D32768.
> >
> > This can't be a capture for the "nfsstat" numbers you emailed the
> > last
> > time.
> > (For one thing, that one didn't have any write RPCs counted.) Try
> > and
> > get
> > a capture for the case where there are few NFS RPCs. (Did you
> > capture
> > for
> > the first time doing the startup after doing a mount vs do an
> > "nfsstat"
> > for a subsequent startup?) Or, is this client doing something else
> > on
> > the
> > network while the startup is happening?
> >
> > I may take a look at it, to see if I can spot anything weird, but a
> > capture
> > when it only does 88 RPCs is going to be much easier to look at.
> >
> >
> >
> > 'k, here is what I just ran now =E2=80=A6 igb1 is the private IP networ=
k
> > where
> > the NFS mount is running from =E2=80=A6 host 192.168.1.5 is the host IP=
 of
> > the
> > server that I'm using for testing =E2=80=A6 and the results again have =
WRITE
> > calls in it =E2=80=A6
> >
> >
> > note that when I run the tcpdump command, I'm in /tmp on the local
> > file system, so I'm not writing that log to the NFS server =E2=80=A6 an=
d
> > there
> > is nothing else running on the NFS mount, since all tha tis on it is
> > /usr/local/jboss=E2=80=A6 =E2=80=A6 the rest of /usr/local is on the lo=
cal drives
> > also
> > =E2=80=A6 the WRITEs are to /usr/local/jboss/standalone/logs =E2=80=A6 =
so not sure
> > why
> > RPC Counts for Writes is showing 0 change =E2=80=A6
> >
> >
> > I'm building a new bz2 file right now, but it looks pretty similar
> > to
> > the one I already sent you a URL for ...
> >
> >
> >
> > root@server04:/tmp # nfsstat -c; tcpdump -i igb1 -s 0 -w
> > startup.pcap
> > host 192.168.1.5
> > Client Info:
> > Rpc Counts:
> > Getattr Setattr Lookup Readlink Read Write Create Remove
> > 2746536 821481 974263 18 2230948 2098303 160726 4954
> > Rename Link Symlink Mkdir Rmdir Readdir RdirPlus Access
> > 1862 0 0 14724 950 16272 0 330261
> > Mknod Fsstat Fsinfo PathConf Commit
> > 12 30926 6 0 0
> > Rpc Info:
> > TimedOut Invalid X Replies Retries Requests
> > 0 0 0 0 9432366
> > Cache Info:
> > Attr Hits Misses Lkup Hits Misses BioR Hits Misses BioW Hits Misses
> > 26331524 2746535 20540473 974231 2380075 2225802 2618800 2097243
> > BioRLHits Misses BioD Hits Misses DirE Hits Misses Accs Hits Misses
> > 1262 18 46863 15678 29941 0 22516391 330264
> > tcpdump: listening on igb1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture
> > size
> > 65535 bytes
> > ^C5454815 packets captured
> > 5458144 packets received by filter
> > 0 packets dropped by kernel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > root@server04:/tmp # nfsstat -c
> > Client Info:
> > Rpc Counts:
> > Getattr Setattr Lookup Readlink Read Write Create Remove
> > 2746603 821481 974276 18 2230953 2098303 160726 4954
> > Rename Link Symlink Mkdir Rmdir Readdir RdirPlus Access
> > 1862 0 0 14724 950 16272 0 330275
> > Mknod Fsstat Fsinfo PathConf Commit
> > 12 30926 6 0 0
> > Rpc Info:
> > TimedOut Invalid X Replies Retries Requests
> > 0 0 0 0 9432465
> > Cache Info:
> > Attr Hits Misses Lkup Hits Misses BioR Hits Misses BioW Hits Misses
> > 26332545 2746602 20540712 974244 2380801 2225807 2618800 2097243
> > BioRLHits Misses BioD Hits Misses DirE Hits Misses Accs Hits Misses
> > 1262 18 46863 15678 29941 0 22516700 330278
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > rick
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > i am doing a bzip2 compressed file right now, and will make it
> > available via HTTP, if you are interested =E2=80=A6
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The only other thing I can suggest is taking the "soft,intr" options
> > off
> > your mount and see if that has any effect. Maybe some syscall is
> > returning
> > EINTR and confusing jboss?
> >
> >
> > Tried removing soft,intr =E2=80=A6 no change, still around 240s =E2=80=
=A6
> Well, I looked at the packet capture and, for some reason, it
> repeatedly does a write of 1 byte to a file, followed by a read of
> that file, over and over and ... again. I have no idea why the
> app. does that.
>=20
Oh, one more mount option you could try is "nocto". If the app. is
repeatedly closing/opening the file, that might explain the repeated
"write 1 byte; read some of the file"?

rick

> I also don't know why the "nfsstat -c" is bogus. Are you using "-t
> oldnfs"
> for the mount for these runs by any chance? If so, you need to use
> "nfsstat -o -c".
>=20
> rick
> ps: To be honest, I doubt that anything can be done to speed this up,
> except to move it to a local disk.
>=20
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