From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 13:58:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE1216A4CE; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:58:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from svaha.com (svaha.com [64.46.156.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE6C43D2D; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:58:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meconlen@obfuscated.net) Received: from [66.232.154.115] ([66.232.154.115]) (AUTH: LOGIN meconlen, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,RC4-SHA) by svaha.com with esmtp; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:58:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5FCEDFA8-68A3-11D8-870A-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <478667A6-6892-11D8-A5DD-00039367611E@obfuscated.net> <5FCEDFA8-68A3-11D8-870A-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Conlen Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:57:44 -0500 To: Charles Swiger X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS server usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:58:31 -0000 On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: > Well, you are going to be bottlenecked potentially by your network or > by the maximum I/O rate that your NFS server can sustain. Your data > suggests you ought to be able to handle about two orders of magnitude > more net traffic, if you're over a dedicated 100 Mbs connection > between server and clients (ie, using a switch), so it's likely that > you're going to run into limits due to your disks well before then. > > You can probably switch to using rsync or some other replication > scheme instead of NFS if you do run into limits, and keep the files > locally if need be. The production system will use dual channel U320 RAID controllers with 12 disks per channel, so disk shouldn't be an issue, and it will connect with GigE, so network is plenty fine, now I'm on to CPU. Low volume tests with live data indicate low CPU usage however when I best fit the graph it's dificult to tell how linear (or non linear) the data is. I've got a ton of points between 7.5Mbit/sec web traffic and and 17Mibt/sec but all the points beyond that are somewhat scattered up to about 23Mibt/sec (with a corresponding 5% load in NFS traffic.) The first interval is pretty linear but the first and second interval are not and appear exponential, and the numbers indicate that a 2Gz Xeon system that's using 2% CPU around 8Mbit in web traffic and 3% around 15 Mbit suddenly using 50% CPU at 52Mbit and 250% at 75Mbit. (presuming 5% of that traffic ends up actually going over NFS). Does that kind of curve look accurate to you (anyone)? Would a web page with pretty pictures help anyone understand what I just said? -- Michael Conlen