From: Jeremy Sanders Subject: Re: Re: Slow performance with 2.4.19pre1 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:09:50 +0100 (BST) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20020704165543.A28955@lucon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Bryan O'Sullivan" , Return-path: Received: from purple.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.4]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17QP6F-0003er-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 02:10:00 -0700 To: "H. J. Lu" In-Reply-To: <20020704165543.A28955@lucon.org> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, H. J. Lu wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:33:52PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 08:25, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > > > Sorry - I know it's bad form to reply to one's own emails. It seems that > > > the stock 2.4.19rc1 kernel doesn't have the problem as a client, and so > > > it's the RedHat patched 2.4.18 kernel which is a very slow client. This > > > looks like a RedHat bug. > > > > Yes, you're correct. The kernels Red Hat has been shipping with 7.3 > > have atrocious NFS client behaviour, and will bring some servers (such > > as Netapp boxes) to a halt. > > > > Have you tried the 7.3 kernel update. It is 2.4.18-5. The tests were with 2.4.18-5 on an athlon. Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs