NFS performance

Ulrich Windl (windl@pc5234.dvm.klinik.uni-regensburg.de)
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 15:23:42 +0100 (MET)


Hi,

I'm running Linux 2.0.25 as NFS client. NFS Server is HP-UX 10.01 with few
ARPA performance patches. Unfortunately NFS performance is rather poor.
Especially I noticed that when writing to NFS, the system gets very busy
(CPU in kernel mode), while when reading, the CPU is idle over 90%. I'm
running a Pentium 133 with a "AMD 79C970 (rev 22)." network card.

Are there any tricks to increase NFS performance (I'm using read/write as
well as mmap).

Ulrich