Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:45:46 +0000 From: George Cox <gjvc@gjvc.com> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DIRBLKSIZ and NFS_DIRBLKSIZ Message-ID: <20000218104546.C14651@extremis.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002171310180.18585-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>; from shovey@buffnet.net on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 01:12:28PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002171310180.18585-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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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] <gjvc@gjvc.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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