From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 19: 8:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.new.rr.com (fe3.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD90737B402 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from babylon.polands.org ([65.28.197.21]) by mail3.new.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:08:05 -0600 Received: (from djp@localhost) by babylon.polands.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) id g0938Jm05594; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:08:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:08:19 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Impoving NFS performance Message-ID: <20020108210819.A5558@polands.org> References: <02010818414501.05084@proxy.the-i-pa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <02010818414501.05084@proxy.the-i-pa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:41:45PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Ran some tests today to try to determine where some bottlenecks are occurring > in a recently installed WAN and found something rather disturbing. > In tests, NFS is anywhere from 4 to 20 times slower than SMB or FTP file transfer. > FTP = ~80k/sec > SMB = ~60k/sec > NFS = ~25k/sec (although one test showed 2.5k/sec - ugh!) > Fellow I work with claims that this is just the way NFS is and that we should abandon > it for other file-sharing methods. > Anyone have any light to shed on this? Is NFS inherently slower than SMB and other > protocols? If no, what can be done to speed things up? > Here's some options I use after some research: -o nfsv3,intr,rdirplus,-r=32768,-w=32768 I've never measured the performance against other protocols but this gave me acceptable performance on a small LAN. YMMV. Never did figure out how to get this to work via fstab. I've been mounting remote exports via shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. If you use these and can get the mounts to work via fstab, I'd appreciate some guidance. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message