Re: nfs slowdown since 2.5.4

From: Matthias Welk (welk@fokus.gmd.de)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 06:50:14 EST


Trond Myklebust wrote:

>On Tuesday 04 June 2002 19:16, Matthias Welk wrote:
>
>
>>On Tuesday 04 June 2002 18:48, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tuesday 04 June 2002 17:56, Matthias Welk wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>To get more info about this problem I compared the compile time and the
>>>>nfs traffic between 2.4.18-4 and 2.5.20 on a RedHat 7.3 system.
>>>>The sources (mosfet-liquid0.9.5.tar.gz - KDE style) were located on the
>>>>local disc and the libraries were linked over nfs.
>>>>The results attached to this mail show the big difference !
>>>>
>>>>
>
>Does the appended patch make a difference
>

Yes, the lookup rate increased 1/3 compared to the unpatched version.
I have attached updated results of the build process, because there was a
mistake for the 2.4.18 version.

Now the addition to my last mail:

NFS-Server: Auspex NS3010
NFS-Filesystem: Auspex-specific (FastFLO Journaling File System)

Greetings, Matthias
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#time to build on a RedHat 7.3 system with 2.4.18-4

real 1m8.473s
user 0m51.510s
sys 0m7.800s

# packets: 7757
lookup: 2952
getattr: 175
readdir: 72
readlink: 119
read: 567
frag: 4144
other: 0


#time to build on a RedHat 7.3 system with 2.5.20

real 1m48.509s
user 0m51.320s
sys 0m12.790s

# packets: 149859
lookup: 143791
getattr: 1273
readdir: 24
readlink: 119
read: 828
frag: 4232
other: 0


#time to build on a RedHat 7.3 system with 2.5.20 patched

real 2m11.262s
user 0m50.960s
sys 0m14.260s

# packets: 234552
lookup: 229030
getattr: 728
readdir: 24
readlink: 119
read: 827
frag: 4231
other: 0

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