From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 08:21:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0C016A4B3 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:21:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Hartmut.Brandt@dlr.de) Received: from smtp-3.dlr.de (smtp-3.dlr.de [195.37.61.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D73A43CB2 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:20:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Hartmut.Brandt@dlr.de) Received: from knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de ([129.247.173.6]) by smtp-3.dlr.de over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:21:28 +0100 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:21:30 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt X-X-Sender: brandt_h@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20061207163626.N17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> Message-ID: <20061208091822.M17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <20061206.143808.-1350498609.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061207090026.I17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <20061207.080007.1720215207.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061207163626.N17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> X-OpenPGP-Key: harti@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Dec 2006 08:21:28.0851 (UTC) FILETIME=[DC204E30:01C71AA1] Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD NFS Client, Windows 2003 NFS server X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Harti Brandt List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:21:32 -0000 On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Harti Brandt wrote: HB>On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: HB> HB>MWL>In message: <20061207090026.I17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> HB>MWL> Harti Brandt writes: HB>MWL>: MWL>Does anybody have experience with using FreeBSD 4.x or 6.x NFS clients HB>MWL>: MWL>against a Windows 2003 NFS server? What is the performance relative HB>MWL>: MWL>to using a FreeBSD NFS server? What is the stability? Does locking HB>MWL>: MWL>work? Does the Windows 2003 server have extensions that grok file HB>MWL>: MWL>system flags? HB>MWL>: HB>MWL>: I use this regularily (well, -CURRENT). I have no numbers, but performance HB>MWL>: is ok. I have the home directories on a W2003k server and it 'feels' fast HB>MWL>: enough. HB>MWL> HB>MWL>We see FreeBSD to FreeBSD NFS feeling fast enough for most things, but HB>MWL>when we do a full build of our system from scratch it takes 10 hours HB>MWL>over NFS vs 1 hour on a local disk. We're worried that if we were to HB>MWL>try to do heavy NFS traffic to a Win2003 server with SFU this would be HB>MWL>even slower. HB> HB>Ok. I did a very short test (no time to do much more). Read performance HB>with dd if=/nfs/bigfile of=/dev/null bs=4k is around 9MByte/sec. Write HB>performance with dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs/bigfile bs=4k is 4MByte/sec. HB> HB>Client is something around 1GHz with a 100Mbps link. Fileserver is a HB>double proc Xeon with a 1Gbps link. The Server has a load of around 30% HB>(from the antivirus scanner). HB> HB>72Mbps on a 100Mbps link looks actually ok for me. I've no FreeBSD on a HB>Gigabit link to test with. HB> HB>If you want I could try to do a buildworld. Ok. To answer my own mail. A buildworld with a local /usr/src takes 2:50h on that machine, with /usr/src on the W2003 server 3:50h. Looks not that bad. harti