Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:40:35 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS performance Message-ID: <20010320104034.B29888@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103201911530.405-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>; from conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:31:50PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103201911530.405-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
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* Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> [010320 10:36] wrote: > We're making plans to upgrade our NFS server to FreeBSD-4.3 (including > new disks...) and I would like to ask about the status of NFS v3? > > Currently, a standard NFS mount (4.3BETA) gives us a sequential writing > speed of approx. 2Mb/s (just 400Mb dd'd data, IBM DTLA-307045 with > softupdates) and reading speed of 9Mb/s (the maximum). > Are you _really_ using version _3_? (3 should give better than 2MB/sec writes) > Mounting via TCP gives us 2.5Mb/s. (Is this safe?) > > Are there any other possibilities to increase the writing speed (by means > of tuning NFS...)? Have you tried upping the number of the -w and -r tunables? How many nfsiods do you have running on the client? How many nfsds on the server? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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