Re: Poor NFS client write performance Linux->Solaris

Thierry Danis (danis@sagem.fr)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:13:46 +0200


On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 03:52:57PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > servers. One gives a 'poor' but not so bad performance compared
> > to the other one (client is 2.2.6-ac1, 2.2.7-ac1 or 2.2.9) :
> > 1400809 bytes/second for writing the file
> > 1640707 bytes/second for reading the file
>
> Do you have the block size set to 8K (or a multiple thereof) - Linux defaults
> to 4K which will do badly with Solaris unless tuned
>

Yes :

monaco:/u3 on /a/monaco.u3 type nfs (rw,soft,bg,intr,timeo=20,wsize=8192,rsize=8192,actimeo=1,addr=xxx.xx.xx.xxx)

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	Thierry Danis
	Poste : 53 53	danis@spmo.sagem.fr

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