Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:21:30 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD NFS Client, Windows 2003 NFS server Message-ID: <20061208091822.M17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <20061207163626.N17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <20061206.143808.-1350498609.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061207090026.I17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <20061207.080007.1720215207.imp@bsdimp.com> <20061207163626.N17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Harti Brandt wrote: HB>On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: HB> HB>MWL>In message: <20061207090026.I17220@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> HB>MWL> Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> writes: HB>MWL>: MWL>Does anybody have experience with using FreeBSD 4.x or 6.x NFS clients HB>MWL>: MWL>against a Windows 2003 NFS server? What is the performance relative HB>MWL>: MWL>to using a FreeBSD NFS server? What is the stability? Does locking HB>MWL>: MWL>work? Does the Windows 2003 server have extensions that grok file HB>MWL>: MWL>system flags? HB>MWL>: HB>MWL>: I use this regularily (well, -CURRENT). I have no numbers, but performance HB>MWL>: is ok. I have the home directories on a W2003k server and it 'feels' fast HB>MWL>: enough. HB>MWL> HB>MWL>We see FreeBSD to FreeBSD NFS feeling fast enough for most things, but HB>MWL>when we do a full build of our system from scratch it takes 10 hours HB>MWL>over NFS vs 1 hour on a local disk. We're worried that if we were to HB>MWL>try to do heavy NFS traffic to a Win2003 server with SFU this would be HB>MWL>even slower. HB> HB>Ok. I did a very short test (no time to do much more). Read performance HB>with dd if=/nfs/bigfile of=/dev/null bs=4k is around 9MByte/sec. Write HB>performance with dd if=/dev/zero of=/nfs/bigfile bs=4k is 4MByte/sec. HB> HB>Client is something around 1GHz with a 100Mbps link. Fileserver is a HB>double proc Xeon with a 1Gbps link. The Server has a load of around 30% HB>(from the antivirus scanner). HB> HB>72Mbps on a 100Mbps link looks actually ok for me. I've no FreeBSD on a HB>Gigabit link to test with. HB> HB>If you want I could try to do a buildworld. Ok. To answer my own mail. A buildworld with a local /usr/src takes 2:50h on that machine, with /usr/src on the W2003 server 3:50h. Looks not that bad. harti
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