Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 14:30:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "D. Rock" <rock@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@apollo.backplane.com Subject: Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr Message-ID: <199902062230.OAA01262@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 02:01:36 %2B0100." <199902060101.CAA04062@vodix.aremorika>
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> I tried to track down some of the problems doing a network snoop and noticed > something interesting: > NFSv3 seems to produce more than twice the packets during file write than NFSv2 > Is this true. There are many more getattr() calls with NFSv3 than with NFSv2. You may mean "ACCESS", not "GETATTR" here. > Since my NFS server exports one filesystem exclusively to one FreeBSD machine > (which is a little short on disk space), I also tried some tricks for speedup. > I just mounted one big file, vnconfig'd, newfs'd it and mounted it via UFS. > But unfortunately the machine panic'd really fast during filesystem activity. > My tests on this are 3-4 months old though, I will give it another try. Definitely, since we cache ACCESS RPC results now. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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