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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:31:39 -0700
From: Jeff Lightfoot <jeffml@pobox.com>
To: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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Subject: Re: nfs-server slowdown in 2.4.20-pre10 with client 2.2.19
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:36:51 +0200
Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> wrote:

> my second try shows all the same result. The exact same setup as
> yesterday night and a second try results again in very low
> performance. To name it: about 11 GB of data took an incredible 13,5
> hours to write to the server over a 100 MBit FDX switch.
> This night I will try to reduce rsize/wsize from the current 8192
> down to 1024 as suggested by Jeff.

Small mistake, reads improved with 1024 but writes dropped
dramatically.  The set of options that work are rsize=1024,wsize=8192

Try those and see how it works.

I'm wondering what changed although I do remember my nfs* packages
changing in Debian (Sid) recently (async, sync now having to be
specified).  Hmmm.

-- 
Jeff Lightfoot    --    jeffml@pobox.com    --    http://thefoots.com/
    "so impressed with all you do ... tried so hard to be like you ...
    flew too high and burnt the wing ... lost my faith in everything"
    -- NIN
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