From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 20 11: 6:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABAF37B718 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:06:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2KIeZK23837; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:40:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:40:35 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jan Conrad Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS performance Message-ID: <20010320104034.B29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:31:50PM +0100 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jan Conrad [010320 10:36] wrote: > We're making plans to upgrade our NFS server to FreeBSD-4.3 (including > new disks...) and I would like to ask about the status of NFS v3? > > Currently, a standard NFS mount (4.3BETA) gives us a sequential writing > speed of approx. 2Mb/s (just 400Mb dd'd data, IBM DTLA-307045 with > softupdates) and reading speed of 9Mb/s (the maximum). > Are you _really_ using version _3_? (3 should give better than 2MB/sec writes) > Mounting via TCP gives us 2.5Mb/s. (Is this safe?) > > Are there any other possibilities to increase the writing speed (by means > of tuning NFS...)? Have you tried upping the number of the -w and -r tunables? How many nfsiods do you have running on the client? How many nfsds on the server? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message