From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 13:42:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9973D37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC4C543F75 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h59Kg656043339 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:42:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3EE4F11A.4070809@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:42:02 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org References: <20030609203742.30333.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Slow disk write speeds over network X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:42:07 -0000 Paulo Roberto wrote: >>Sean Chittenden wrote: >> >>>>Ok, I have a file server (NFS) running FreeBSD 4.8-RC1, which is >>> >>having >> >>>>incredibly slow disk write speeds. Locally, doing something like: >>> > > Just an idea (I might be saying something pretty stupid...): Have you > tried increasing the network buffer size?? Here's what netstat -m currently shows: 642/2560/26432 mbufs in use (current/peak/max): 642 mbufs allocated to data 640/2352/6608 mbuf clusters in use (current/peak/max) 5344 Kbytes allocated to network (26% of mb_map in use) 0 requests for memory denied 0 requests for memory delayed 0 calls to protocol drain routines Now, I usually jack this way up, but I didn't happen to on this machine, however it doesn't look like I'm needing it - unless I'm missing something.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------