From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 5:26:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CD0B37B953 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 05:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 16612 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Feb 2000 10:45:46 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:45:46 +0000 From: George Cox To: Steve Hovey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DIRBLKSIZ and NFS_DIRBLKSIZ Message-ID: <20000218104546.C14651@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from shovey@buffnet.net on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 01:12:28PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17/02 13:12, Steve Hovey wrote: > I have a mail server, where user home dirs are NFS mounted (so it can see > things like .forward in the user home dirs) Im thinking smoe of the slug > down/overhead may be in the NFS time it takes to get into and examine a > home dir.. Hmmmm. > Im thinking maybe I could optimize it alittle if I nfs mount with a > higher than default DIRBLKSIZ but Im not sure (the -I param) . Anyone > with insight on this? Or how I might calc a more optimal setting? Well, yes you can tweak the NFS block size. But in the context of this message you haven't _really_ explained the symptom. Are you saying that directory lookups are slow over NFS? What about general reading and writing of files? gjvc -- [gjvc] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message