From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 6 14:34:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00959 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 14:34:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles103.castles.com [208.214.165.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00954 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 14:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01262; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 14:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902062230.OAA01262@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "D. Rock" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@apollo.backplane.com Subject: Re: Seeing NFS saturation 'loop' when installworld'ing to NFS / and /usr In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 02:01:36 +0100." <199902060101.CAA04062@vodix.aremorika> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 14:30:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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