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Date:      Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:24:56 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Peter Hessler <phessler@coverity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS small files
Message-ID:  <422E5E78.3000703@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050309005628.5C6D1908B8@coverity.dreamhost.com>
References:  <20050309005628.5C6D1908B8@coverity.dreamhost.com>

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Peter Hessler wrote:
> I'm setting up an NFS server to be used for compiling, and it seems that
> while speeds are acceptable for large files, small files take much
> longer than expected.
> 
> Copying 10000 16K files (in a directory) takes 54seconds, while copying
> a 170M single file takes 5s.
> 
> Are there any tricks for speeding up small file performance?  I'm
> willing to give up large file performance.

What mount options are you using on the client?



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