Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750938AbWBWUf3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:35:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751345AbWBWUf3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:35:29 -0500 Received: from rs27.luxsci.com ([66.216.127.24]:39853 "EHLO rs27.luxsci.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938AbWBWUf2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:35:28 -0500 Message-ID: <43FE1CAD.3050806@eventmonitor.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:35:57 -0500 From: Bryan Fink User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: NFS Still broken in 2.6.x? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1574 Lines: 35 Hi All. I'm running into a bit of trouble with NFS on 2.6. I see that at least Trond thought, mid-January, that "The readahead algorithm has been broken in 2.6.x for at least the past 6 months." ( http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0601.2/0559.html) Anyone know if that has been fixed? Basically, the problem I'm having is that downloads from an NFS server using kernel 2.6 are no more than half as fast as the same from a server using kernel 2.4. Write speed (uploading) seems to be about the same, but reading is slow. I'm using tcp as my protocol, at the suggestion of many posts, but flipping over to udp doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm using version 3, although I did switch to 2 just to check (it's no better, usually slower). My read size is 32768 and my write size is 8192. Decreasing the read size only slows down the transfers. Increasing write size has no effect. As for hardware, both machines are dual AMD Opterons, 100Mbps ethernet, and the NFS is serving space on a RAID array. The 2.4 (2.4.21 to be exact) kernel is running under SuSE 9.0, and the 2.6 (2.6.15 to be exact) kernel is running under SuSE 10.0. I saw the same speed drop when attempting to upgrade to SuSE 9.3. I stayed with 9.0 in hopes that the problem would be fixed in the future. Anyone have any ideas? -Bryan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/