From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 11:28:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D23337B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:28:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B324243F85 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:28:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h19JSd4F050229; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:28:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:28:39 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Antoine Jacoutot Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: speeding up NFS Message-ID: <20030209192839.GH5356@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200302091717.42138.ajacoutot@lphp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302091717.42138.ajacoutot@lphp.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 In the last episode (Feb 09), Antoine Jacoutot said: > I wanted to know if someone could help me speed up NFS transfers with > FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE. With Linux clients+server, the transfers are > exactly twice faster than with freeBSD, so I am sure I must have > screwed the configuration somewhere. Writes or reads? I bet Linux doesn't sync on NFS writes like it's supposed to. If you set the sysctl vfs.nfsrv.async=1 on your FreeBSD nfs server, does it match Linuxes speed? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message