From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: gigabit, 2.4.22 and timeo
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:31:05 -0400
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To: Roberto Sebastiano <robs@multiplayer.it>
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>>>>> " " == Roberto Sebastiano <robs@multiplayer.it> writes:

     > While transferring the files it seems that "ls -laR" on the
     > other nfs client is a little slow ..

     > I'm worried that the 500-1000 apache childs will hang on reads
     > from network. Is there any way to prevent this ? Maybe more
     > nfsd instances on the server ?

Yes. Note that each NFS client will use a maximum of 16 nfsd threads
on the server at any point in time. Of course, that tails off as you
start to hit the scalability curves as you add more clients, but it is
a good rule of thumb if you just have between 1 and 8 clients...

Cheers,
  Trond


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