Re: Poor NFS client write performance Linux->Solaris
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:32:04 +1000
Alan Cox writes:
> > Hi, all. I've just tried measuring Linux NFS client performance on a
> > dual PPro running 2.3.4. Block size is 8 kiB, network is 100 Mb/s
> > switched full duplex. The server is running Solaris 2.5.1 on a quad
> > UltraSparc (250 MHz).
> >
> > Why is NFS write performance so bad? I apologise for not having paid
> > closer attention to this, if this is a well-worn topic.
>
> 2.3.x doesn't have the -ac NFS improvements in (for one Linus I
> think wants them a bit cleaner than they are now). That kills
> you. Really we need to get NFSv3 in the main code for 2.3.x too
Solaris 2.5 isn't using NFS v3 is it?
Anyway, what's the actual problem? I've tried mounting with block
sizes from 1k to 32k and it doesn't help.
Regards,
Richard....
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