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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:33:43 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NFS performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103211831270.1867-100000@merlin.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010321092336.A12319@fw.wintelcom.net>

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to add some data:

before dd
client:
netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
Coll
fxp0  1500  <Link#1>    00:02:b3:1f:f8:c5  1901001     0   771611     0
208240
fxp0  1500  131.220.160/2 merlin           2855995     -  2395666     -
-
lo0   16384 <Link#2>                       1624909     0  1624909     0
0
lo0   16384 127           localhost             80     -       80     -
-
server:

netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
Coll
fxp0  1500  <Link#1>    00:90:27:1c:f3:79  7157753     0  4648694     0
2661459
fxp0  1500  131.220.160/2 einstein        11721570     - 10812723     -
-
lo0   16384 <Link#2>                       6168347     0  6168347     0
0
lo0   16384 127           localhost             92     -       92     -
-

dd if=/dev/zero of=zero bs=16k count=64x100
104857600 bytes transferred in 42.430910 secs (2471255 bytes/sec)

afterwards:

client:

netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
Coll
fxp0  1500  <Link#1>    00:02:b3:1f:f8:c5  1980833     0   786612     0
230703
fxp0  1500  131.220.160/2 merlin           2938252     -  2413439     -
-
lo0   16384 <Link#2>                       1627675     0  1627675     0
0
lo0   16384 127           localhost             80     -       80     -
-


server:

netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs
Coll
fxp0  1500  <Link#1>    00:90:27:1c:f3:79  7172808     0  4728002     0
2674322
fxp0  1500  131.220.160/2 einstein        11738102     - 10893714     -
-
lo0   16384 <Link#2>                       6170041     0  6170041     0
0
lo0   16384 127           localhost             92     -       92     -
-


On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de> [010321 05:43] wrote:
> > ok - to sum up a bit..
> >
> > - for a good LAN, use UDP
> > - use v3 (this is what I thought)
> > - use standard data sizes
> >
> > but still...
> >
> > Our network connection between client and server is going directly over a
> > BaySwitch 450 24T, all interfaces set to 100baseTX, half-duplex.
> > So the LAN is good.
> > We run 4 nfsd's and 4 nfsiods on each machine.
> >
> > I did the mount as 'mount_nfs ....'
> > Even so 'mount' does'nt show, I suppose I made a v3 mount (from the
> > source code of mount_nfs).
> > BTW, is there any way to figure that out?
>
> When in doubt run tcpdump.  I really doubt that you're maxing out
> at ~3MB/sec, I've done 11MB/sec on 100mb ether before.
>
> > Do you know what actually determines the writing speed in a case like
> > our's? Network or disk?
>
> Y'know, it would be a hell of a lot easier to figure out what was
> wrong if you showed us the mount flags you're using.
>
>
>
>

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