From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 13 6:35:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE5014DB3; Thu, 13 May 1999 06:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cy@cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id GAA07641; Thu, 13 May 1999 06:36:44 -0700 Received: from cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca(142.31.240.113), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda07639; Thu May 13 06:36:38 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id GAA32197; Thu, 13 May 1999 06:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905131334.GAA32197@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdO32193; Thu May 13 06:34:31 1999 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" Cc: Doug Rabson , Mats Lofkvist , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS question.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 21:01:11 +0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 06:34:30 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" writes: > > NFSD Host OS Network Throughput, KB/s Comments > speed Read Write > FreeBSD 3.1 100 4500 610 ! vfs.nfs.async=1 > FreeBSD 3.1 100 550 vfs.nfs.async=0 > FTP->FreeBSD 100 6000 3000 > FreeBSD 3.1 10 1040 560 vfs.nfs.async=1 > FreeBSD 3.1 10 330 vfs.nfs.async=0 > Linux 10 1020 800 ! > Solaris 7 (i386) 10 900 480 I don't think that this is an NFS issue. You'll generally find that write local filesystem performance of FreeBSD is slower on FreeBSD than on Linux. Linux filesystems are written asynchronously while FreeBSD by default writes metadata synchronously (SMD). SMD (Synchronous Metadata) writes are not the same as synchronous writes (all writes to the filesystem being synchronous) -- sync option on the mount command. IIRC, Bruce Evans made the comment last year that by mounting a filesystem async, he had an incredible performance improvement. I'm sorry I cannot recall the actual percentage of performance improvement. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Province of BC "e**(i*pi)+1=0" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message