Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 23:33:08 -0600 From: Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Impoving NFS performance Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020108232339.05a7bda0@pop.netaddress.com> In-Reply-To: <02010818414501.05084@proxy.the-i-pa.com>
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At 06:41 PM 1/8/2002 -0500, you wrote: >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? Bill, you should consider getting O'Reilly's _Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition_. It is an excellent read and will certainly help with performance troubleshooting. Anyway, this kind of performance isn't normal. Start poking around with nfsstat. Also, you may need to evaluate your traffic patterns and adjust your read and write size to suit your network. Finally, since this is a WAN environment, evaluate the the MTU of your links and how it can be affecting the situation. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net> Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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