From: "G. Allen Morris III" <gam3-nfs@gam3.net>
Subject: Re: nhfsstone
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:37:33 -0500
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To: Sean Dogar <sean@catfeeder.net>
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:03:40PM -0700, Sean Dogar wrote:
> Has anybody used the nfs benchmarking utility "nhfsstone"? 
> 
> I can run it, and I can see that it's doing work (it makes test 
> directories in the NFS-mounted directory that I start it from), but it 
> never finishes it's testing or gives me any performance info.  I've 
> tried the various options, including a -t 120 (I thought that this would 
> restrict run-time to 120 seconds) and others, but I still get no output, 
> even with verbose.  It doesn't send any output to files either.  It just 
> runs and runs.   This is on a Redhat 8 machine as a client mounting an 
> AIX NFS export. 
> 
> The man page is sort of vague, but I get the impression that you can run 
> it without any arguments, and it will do a test with the various 
> defaults, and eventually should return. 
> 
> Does anybody have any idea on this or do you know somewhere to point me 
> for more info?  Most of the stuff I've found through Google has been the 
> man page itself. 
> 

It seems that nhfsstone only benchmarks nfs v2 filesystems.  It is
likely that you are using v3.

Allen Morris


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