Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-24 Thread Alex Still
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Alex Still alex.rans...@gmail.com wrote: [...] On some servers this behavior returned despite rsize being set to 32k, I had to set it to 8k to get reasonnable throughput. So there's

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-23 Thread Alex Still
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 17:44 +0200, Alex Still wrote: Clients are blade servers. The blade chassis have integrated cisco switches, which are plugged to a cisco 6509. The NFS server is on another site 40km away, directly connected

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Still
[..] /proc/mounts shows rsize has been negotiated to 1mB Have you tested the same thing with a Linux NFS server? The CentOS 5.x kernel has a maximum server [rw]size of 32Kb, so you would need to use something with a more recent kernel to get [rw]sizes to be 1Mb. Haven't tried with a

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Still
[...] On some servers this behavior returned despite rsize being set to 32k, I had to set it to 8k to get reasonnable throughput. So there's definitly something fishy going on. This has been reported on over 20 machines, so I don't think it's faulty hardware we're seeing. Any thoughts,

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Still
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: [...] Well, it's been a long time since I've done troubleshooting on large NFS networks, but here's an idea... Are you seeing any kind of packet loss/retransmissions?  Take a look at netstat  -s.  When I last did this