Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 02:06:28 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@backplane.com Subject: Re: Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes? Message-ID: <19990809020628.M51428@forty-two.egroups.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990809044810.20420h-100000@cygnus.rush.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:50:51AM -0400 References: <37AE8730.886D4E72@gorean.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990809044810.20420h-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:50:51AM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > > : So, the big question is whether there is anything we can tune to speed up > > > :the writes. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing > > > :most of the web processing. Overall performance on the reads seems to be > > > :best with nfs v3 over udp, which is what I'm using now. All of the web > > > :server directories are soft mounted directly, with no amd currently in use. Could tuning any of the NFS options in the kernel help? Matt, could you give any tips? > > I should have mentioned, I have 20 nfsiod's running. I started so many > > initially to help in the stress testing I was doing, but I left them > > running because the servers are handling from 2-4 requests per second and > > we have lots of ram in the boxes. Is there a way to figure out how many are > > getting used concurrently, or is too many not a problem? > > You need to run 'nfsd' on the servers, not nfsiod. > > nfsd - run on server > nfsiod - run on client He's talking about the client boxes, just measuring from the server side. Reference the second sentence at top. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Failing sardine factory cans employees! mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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