From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 13:32:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5681137B417 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:32:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23704; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:32:23 -0800 Message-ID: <3C191E67.9060800@owt.com> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:32:23 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: Doug Poland , Shawn Ramsey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011212185733.00a5a0c0@cpl.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20011212185733.00a5a0c0@cpl.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20011213103302.02d9d680@mail.cpl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Shawn Ramsey wrote: > At 09:28 AM 12/13/2001 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 07:00:04PM -0800, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >> > With IOZONE, I am getting about 5.6MB on NFS writes, and about 6.0MB on >> > reads... Is this normal, or is there anyway I can increase it? FTP >> > transfers between the two systems I tried with, typically about >> 9-10MB/sec >> > either way. This is on a 10/100 switched networked. >> > >> I've done a little research and experimenting and found the following >> gives adequate performance in a 4.4-STABLE 10/100 switched network: >> >> mount -t nfs -o nfsv3,intr,rdirplus,-r=32768,-w=32768 >> nfsserver:/export /myhost/mountpt >> >> As a side note, I was never able to get above options to work in >> my /etc/fstab so I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that does the >> mounting/unmounting job. >> >> Of course, YMMV. > > > Well, actually.. One problem was I wasn't running "nfsiod". But now that > I do, the load average of the machine jumps from less than 0, to over 5 > or more. Is this normal? Just doing a simple file copy from and to the > mounted filesystem, causes what seems to be an excessive jump in the > load ave. Pay attention to cvs-all, there are some major problems that Dillon has found and are being discussed on -hackers. When these major fixes for NFS are MFC'ed you want to switch to -stable. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message