Re: NFS client performance 1.5 orders of magnitude too slow? (fwd)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:35:01 +0000 (GMT)

> Does that mean that the behavior of rsize/wsize in newer kernels will
> change? Or the default 4k change?

With 2.2.3 if you say "8K writes" you get 4K writes on a box with 4K page
sizes. With 2.2.2ac7 (which has the write gathering) you get bursts
of 8K writes. This makes it a good 5 times faster for some of my test
sets.

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