From: "H. J. Lu" Subject: Re: 2.4.19 NFSALL performance oddity Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:09:57 -0700 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20021005210957.A23389@lucon.org> References: <5CA6F03EF05E0046AC5594562398B91653B9C0@poexmb3.conoco.net> <1033793310.4626.0.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> <1033851316.29937.37.camel@plokta.s8.com> <15775.24289.796995.465654@charged.uio.no> <20021005164157.B19687@lucon.org> <1033876862.18607.0.camel@camp4.serpentine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Trond Myklebust , "Heflin, Roger A." , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from 12-234-88-146.client.attbi.com ([12.234.88.146] helo=lucon.org) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17y2ju-0005DT-00 for ; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 21:09:58 -0700 To: Bryan O'Sullivan In-Reply-To: <1033876862.18607.0.camel@camp4.serpentine.com>; from bos@serpentine.com on Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 09:01:02PM -0700 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 Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 09:01:02PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 16:41, H. J. Lu wrote: > > > It must be a new bug. I used to have Quad P/II Xeon with 8GB RAM. > > I had no problem with its NFS server performance. Also my modified > > kernel based on RedHat kernel 2.4.18-14 has no NFS server problem > > with 1.5GB RAM. > > You're not using Trond's NFS_ALL patch, though, right? That has some > substantial modifications to the source. > RedHat 2.4.18-14 is kernel 2.4.18 + tons of patches. I don't think it has straight Trond's NFS_ALL patch. But it does have some NFS changes. The only NFS related complaint I have is they default the NFS V3 block size to 4096 which kills the NFS client performance. I believe they put that in to avoid crashing NetApp. I changed it to 8192 and I am quite happy with its NFS performance. H.J. ------------------------------------------------------- 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