From: Neil Brown Subject: RE: Maximum number of nfsd daemons? Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:32:01 +1000 (EST) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <15689.54017.692185.573037@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "'nfs@lists.sourceforge.net'" Return-path: Received: from tone.orchestra.cse.unsw.edu.au ([129.94.242.28]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17aQLr-00021C-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 17:31:31 -0700 Received: From notabene ([129.94.242.45] == bartok.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU) (for ) (for ) By tone With Smtp ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:31:22 +1000 To: Daniel Barbar In-Reply-To: message from Daniel Barbar on Thursday August 1 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 Thursday August 1, dbarbar@legato.com wrote: > Neil, Erich: > > Thanks for the replies. Here is the content of /proc/net/rpc/nfsd: > > fiona:~# cat /proc/net/rpc/nfsd > rc 19 123835 15603248 > fh 10 15227728 0 14 188 > io 3752095213 1826934055 > th 128 0 34.710 2.230 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 This line says " You have 128 threads. You have never used the last thread. You have used between 1 and 12 threads (10%) for a total of 34.7 seconds. You have used between 13 and 25 threads for a total of 2.23 seconds. You have not noticably used more that 25 threads. " So if this load is typical, then you don't need more threads. > ra 256 8316937 462671 10814 6530 3748 4498 2851 3290 1583 1881 402138 > net 15727611 15727611 0 0 > rpc 15727102 509 509 0 0 > proc2 18 856 35104 6 0 9044 349 329927 0 0 83 0 0 0 0 223 0 1890 569 > proc3 22 144698 1357961 50256 519080 2198920 744533 8887018 60150 5539 710 1 > 0 4486 383 127 0 268983 1005032 88344 6016 4533 2281 Everything else looks normal, but you haven't been running this server for long. Maybe you need a longer period of data collection. > > Most clients are Solaris (IS&T here is very Solaris centric). I was > considering installing the patch to enable NFS/TCP, I just wasn't sure > because of its "experimental" state. Have you guys gotten a feeling for its > stability? Thanks again, I don't use it. It should only improve performance if you loose packets on your network. A well switched lan with uniform interface speeds should not notice. If you have a saturated lan, or interfaces of different speeds (e.g. Gigabit client, 100M server) then TCP could help. NeilBrown ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs