From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 10:46: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [63.169.72.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E7337B417 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:45:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from shawn.cpl.net (shawn.megadeth.org [63.169.72.21]) by luke.cpl.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBDIkqF00334; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:46:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011213103302.02d9d680@mail.cpl.net> X-Sender: shawn@mail.cpl.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:47:49 -0800 To: Doug Poland , Shawn Ramsey From: Shawn Ramsey Subject: Re: NFS Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20011213092809.A21123@polands.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011212185733.00a5a0c0@cpl.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20011212185733.00a5a0c0@cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:28 AM 12/13/2001 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 07:00:04PM -0800, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > With IOZONE, I am getting about 5.6MB on NFS writes, and about 6.0MB on > > reads... Is this normal, or is there anyway I can increase it? FTP > > transfers between the two systems I tried with, typically about 9-10MB/sec > > either way. This is on a 10/100 switched networked. > > >I've done a little research and experimenting and found the following >gives adequate performance in a 4.4-STABLE 10/100 switched network: > >mount -t nfs -o nfsv3,intr,rdirplus,-r=32768,-w=32768 nfsserver:/export >/myhost/mountpt > >As a side note, I was never able to get above options to work in >my /etc/fstab so I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that does the >mounting/unmounting job. > >Of course, YMMV. Well, actually.. One problem was I wasn't running "nfsiod". But now that I do, the load average of the machine jumps from less than 0, to over 5 or more. Is this normal? Just doing a simple file copy from and to the mounted filesystem, causes what seems to be an excessive jump in the load ave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message