From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 16:58:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA25794 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gordius.gordian.com (gordius.gordian.com [192.73.220.81]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA25789 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from delphi.gordian.com (delphi.gordian.com [192.73.220.125]) by gordius.gordian.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA19803; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:58:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from steve@localhost) by delphi.gordian.com (8.7.2/8.6.9) id QAA14378; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606102358.QAA14378@delphi.gordian.com> From: Steve Khoo To: Rob Snow CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Rob Snow's message of Fri, 7 Jun 1996 17:33:42 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: NFS problem: Irix 5.2 server, 2.2-960501-SNAP client References: <199606071932.MAA08925@delphi.gordian.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Snow writes: Rob> On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Khoo wrote: Rob> [SNIP] >> >> Thanks for the all responses and suggestions... It looks like the >> problem is related to diskstriping on the Irix 5.2. We've been >> playing around with diskstriping on the sgi to improve performance. I >> truned off diskstriping and rebooted the sgi lastnight and all seems >> to be fine now. I supposed it is possible that the sgi was somehow >> hosed and rebooting fixed it. However, this is unlikely because nfs >> mounts to other systems were still working; I did umount and mount on >> sunos and hp machines to the sgi and worked without a problem. I'll >> have to test it again with striping truned ON on the sgi later, just >> to double check; Since this sgi is a production unit, I can't be >> rebooting it too many times. Rob> Just checking it on my Indigo2 - Irix 6.2 and mounted an xfs partition Rob> with no problem. I've seen problems with Irix and mounting other Rob> filesystems, usually solved by -o vers=2 to force v2 instead of v3. >> Anyway, we are pretty impressed with this P6 unit so far. We did some >> benchmarking with a realworld example(we use a gcc cross-compiler for >> embeded mips system and built one of our source tree), and here are >> the resuls: >> >> SGI 21 mins >> P6(NFS) 16 mins >> P6(local) 7 mins Rob> Good looking numbers! >> >> The source tree is on the SGI server. P6(NFS) is the compile time for >> the P6 with the source tree mounted via NFS from the SGI. P6(local) >> is with the source tree copied over to a local disk on P6. >> >> System specs: >> >> SGI Challenge S server (Irix 5.2) >> 150 Mhz R4600 MIPS Processor >> 160MB RAM >> Fast Wide Differential SCSI Controller >> Seagate Barracuda FWD SCSI drives: 2's and 4's >> 10BaseT NIC Rob> Is this a PC (Primary cache only) or SC (L2 cache added)? It has 256K L2 Cache. >> >> P6 (FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP, kernel rebuilt without FAILSAFE option >> and all the other unnecessary drivers) >> Intel Pentium Pro 200 Mhz CPU >> 64M EDO RAM >> Asus P/I-P6RP4, Orion chipset stepping B0 motherboard >> NCR Fast Wide Differential SCSI Controller >> 4G Seagate Barracuda FWD SCSI drive >> SMC 9332DST 10/100BaseT DC2114 based NIC >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Steve E. Khoo Gordian >> Systems Manager 20361 Irvine Ave >> Internet: steve@gordian.com Santa Ana Heights, CA 92707 >> Phone: (714)850-0205 FAX: (714)850-0533 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob> -- Rob> Rob Snow Rob> Sr. Systems Administrator Rob> Landmark Graphics Corporation BTW, what kind of nfs performance should I be getting from the above P6 system as an NFS server? I'm getting pretty disappointing results: On an isolated 100BaseT network I'm only getting: IOZONE performance measurements: 247132 bytes/second for writing the file 4488887 bytes/second for reading the file This is from a p5-100Mhz 512K PB Cache / 32M RAM nfs client. SEK