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Date:      Sun, 09 Feb 2003 14:26:39 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: speeding up NFS
Message-ID:  <3E46AB6F.1040708@potentialtech.com>
References:  <200302091717.42138.ajacoutot@lphp.org>

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Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> 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.
> Here are the options used for mounting:
> rw,intr,hard,-r=8192,-w=8192,-U
> 
> And here is the server's rc.conf:
> nfs_reserved_port_only="YES"
> nfs_server_enable="YES"
> nfs_server_flags="-h 192.168.0.1 -u -t -n 4"
> rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
> rpc_statd_enable="YES"

Search the archives ... I seem to remember this being discussed in great
depth a few years ago.

You may be able to increase the -r and -w sizes to improve things.

My understanding is: you should use UDP mounts if the servers are close
together (i.e., one hub/switch between them, low latency) but use TCP
mounts if they are far apart (i.e. many hops, high latency, lots of
dropped packets).  I don't know if specifying both -u and -t hurts
anything.

But definately search the archives, there was a LOT more useful information
in the previous discussion.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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