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Old 25th May 2008
SiTLar SiTLar is offline
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Unhappy NFS tuning

Hi!
I'm using NetBSD on an old notebook as a multipurpose server. I've installed nfsd on my NAS to let NetBSD access file archives. Samba doesn't work since NetBSD freezes than doing a memcpy to a mmap'ed file on smbfs. Unfortunately I got a very bad performance of NetBSD's nfs client.

To test the speed I use
Code:
$ dd if=/mnt/NAS/testfile of=/dev/null bs=16k
testfile is 256M zeros.

The best result on NetBSD is only 1.3Mb/s , however my desktop (2.6 linux) is doing 2.3Mb/s with same rsize=1024 on both systems. If I increase the value I get much better results on linux - up to 5.4Mb/s, but a performance loss on NetBSD - only about 500kb/s.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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Old 1st June 2008
J65nko J65nko is offline
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Optimizing NFS is very difficult, something that speeds up one application, will lower performance for another.

Are you using TCP or UDP? NFS version 2 or version 3 protocol ? Can you test the difference?
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Old 1st June 2008
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I can use only nfsv3 - I need large file support. Somehow there is no tcp support in the nfs server I've compiled, I didn't manage to figure out why. UDP fragmentation is relay a problem in NetBDS: I get 1.5 MB/s with rsize=1024 and 3 times less with larger values which are bigger than 1500 MTU. However linux client shows very good results in that configuration.
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