From: Yusuf Goolamabbas Subject: Re: nfsd tuning - please help me! Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:59:22 +0800 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030217025922.GA20685@outblaze.com> References: <20030214174453.11719.qmail@web12201.mail.yahoo.com> <200302142032.h1EKWCIJ006931@buggy.badula.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alan Powell , Steve Dickson , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from 202-77-223-51.outblaze.com ([202.77.223.51] helo=corpmail.outblaze.com) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18kbU7-0007w8-00 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 18:58:23 -0800 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by corpmail.outblaze.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FDB7F85 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 03:06:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yusufg.portal2.com (202-77-223-125.outblaze.com [202.77.223.125]) by corpmail.outblaze.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 97941520CC for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 03:06:38 +0000 (GMT) To: Ion Badulescu In-Reply-To: <200302142032.h1EKWCIJ006931@buggy.badula.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: Maybe RH can put their kernel's through a fstress routine http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/fstress/ According to the author Darell Anderson, http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1126014+0+archive/2003/freebsd-current/20030216.freebsd-current It can emulates SPECsfs > > Unfortunately, we've tried all that already. So given > > that we are not hardware/network constrained, does all > > this mean that the Linux kernel NFS runs into > > performance issues beyond 100 file reads/sec? > > It's quite possible... > > What I'd recommend, however, is testing this again with a non-RedHat > kernel on the client. More precisely, try running 2.4.20 plus the > NFSALL patch from Trond's site . > > We've had significant performance problems over here with the RedHat > kernels, which mostly went away when we replaced the NFS client code > with 2.4.20+NFSALL. > > Hope this helps, > Ion ------------------------------------------------------- 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