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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:29:08 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        taob@risc.org (Brian Tao)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Maximizing NFS server performance
Message-ID:  <199704140059.KAA21424@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970413141830.21528A-100000@alpha.risc.org> from Brian Tao at "Apr 13, 97 03:24:21 pm"

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Brian Tao stands accused of saying:
> 
>     Using a loopback NFS mount in a P200 running 3.0-970124-SNAP, it
> takes almost two minutes to copy my 23MB /usr/src/sys hierarchy (2277
> files).  A dd from /dev/zero to a file on the same NFS filesystem can
> only write about 550K of data per second.  I was hoping to see 10
> times that level of performance.  :(  I recall an async option to
> mount_nfs back in FreeBSD 2.1, but I can't find it documented
> anyhwere.  Is there anything else I can do to improve NFS performance?

Turn on async NFS (vfs.nfs.async), make sure the source filesystem(s) are
mounted noatime, and the destination filesystem is mounted async.

That's about all I can think of...

> Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)

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