From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 9:45:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A0CF37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:45:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from bunsen.solidcore.dk (bunsen.solidcore.dk [217.116.225.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359DA43E3B for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from laursen@netgroup.dk) Received: from animal (port390.ds1-noe.adsl.cybercity.dk [217.157.177.19]) (AUTH: LOGIN laursen@solidcore.dk) by bunsen.solidcore.dk with esmtp; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 18:45:26 +0100 Message-ID: <16a201c284f3$1b251690$6501a8c0@animal> From: "Lasse Laursen" To: "BigBrother" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021105112912.Q69960-100000@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> Subject: Re: NFS Performance woes Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:44:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > According to my experience UDP is much preffered for NFS transport > protocols. Also try to have the NFSIOD daemon being executed on every > machine by putting in the /etc/rc.conf > > nfs_client_enable="YES" > nfs_client_flags="-n 10" > > > [u may put more than 10 instances if u suspect that more than 10 > simultaneous transactions will happen] How is the optimum number of nfsd processes determined on the server? On our current setup we have 4 nfs daemons running serving 3 clients (webservers) Is the number of daemons to start determined by the number of clients or the number of files that has to be transferred simultaniously? Same question goes for the number of nfsiod processes... Regards -- Lasse Laursen - Systems Developer NetGroup A/S, St. Kongensgade 40H, DK-1264 København K, Denmark Phone: +45 3370 1526 - Fax: +45 3313 0066 - Web: www.netgroup.dk - We don't surf the net, we make the waves. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message