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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:32:23 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
Cc:        Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS
Message-ID:  <3C191E67.9060800@owt.com>
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20011212185733.00a5a0c0@cpl.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20011212185733.00a5a0c0@cpl.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20011213103302.02d9d680@mail.cpl.net>

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Shawn Ramsey wrote:

> 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.

Pay attention to cvs-all, there are some major problems that Dillon has 
found and are being discussed on -hackers. When these major fixes for 
NFS are MFC'ed you want to switch to -stable.

Kent

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