Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:55:34 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Greg Fitzgerald <gregf@bigtimegeeks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slowwwwwwwwwwww NFS read performance....
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:04:04AM -0500, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
> Ever since i upgraded to 2.6 my NFS performance has dropped.
> I have a OpenBSD Server running nfsd. The other boxes on my lan
> running windows and or the 2.4.x kernel have no performance problems.
> Files transfer at normal speeds for a 100mbit connection. My main workstation
> which is running 2.6.1-mm4 (i have also had 2.6.1 and 2.6.0 on it) has 
> almost zero nfs performance. I get at the most 500K/s. Anyone have ideas?
> I upgraded to -mm4 having seen some NFS fixes in the patch but none of them
> seem to have applied to my situation. Thanks in advance.

Are you using nfsd on 2.6 too?

check /proc/mounts for what your wsize and rsize are for the nfs mounts, and
lower it and see if that helps, 2.4 uses 8192.

Try tcp-nfs also.
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