From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 9 2: 8:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from forty-two.egroups.net (teapot.findmail.com [206.16.70.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD5BC1518B for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 02:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@forty-two.egroups.net) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by forty-two.egroups.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) id CAA57584; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 02:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 02:06:28 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Doug , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@backplane.com Subject: Re: Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes? Message-ID: <19990809020628.M51428@forty-two.egroups.net> References: <37AE8730.886D4E72@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:50:51AM -0400 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:50:51AM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > > : So, the big question is whether there is anything we can tune to speed up > > > :the writes. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing > > > :most of the web processing. Overall performance on the reads seems to be > > > :best with nfs v3 over udp, which is what I'm using now. All of the web > > > :server directories are soft mounted directly, with no amd currently in use. Could tuning any of the NFS options in the kernel help? Matt, could you give any tips? > > I should have mentioned, I have 20 nfsiod's running. I started so many > > initially to help in the stress testing I was doing, but I left them > > running because the servers are handling from 2-4 requests per second and > > we have lots of ram in the boxes. Is there a way to figure out how many are > > getting used concurrently, or is too many not a problem? > > You need to run 'nfsd' on the servers, not nfsiod. > > nfsd - run on server > nfsiod - run on client He's talking about the client boxes, just measuring from the server side. Reference the second sentence at top. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Failing sardine factory cans employees! mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message