Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-21 Thread Steve Shorter
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:44:14AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: That's good to hear. Did you do any other tweaks? sysctl settings? mbufs? net.inet.udp.recvspace=524288 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=1048576 net.inet.icmp.drop_redirect=1 net.inet.icmp.log_redirect=1 Telus-nfs1:# w 12:41PM up 212

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-21 Thread Eric Anderson
Steve Shorter wrote: Thanks - any help/hints is appreciated. Disk design issues matter cause it is the ultimate bottleneck. RAID is you friend. Just curious - what RAID level/configuration do you use? I've typically used RAID5, but RAID0+1 might be acceptable. Eric --

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-21 Thread Steve Shorter
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:06:41PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Disk design issues matter cause it is the ultimate bottleneck. RAID is you friend. Just curious - what RAID level/configuration do you use? I've typically used RAID5, but RAID0+1 might be acceptable.

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-20 Thread Christian Hiris
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 23:55, Eric Anderson wrote: I have several heavily used NFS servers, currently running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. I'm getting jammed up with all my nfsd processes being busy, so clients see slow connections to the server. I have the nfsd starting with a count of 20, which

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-20 Thread Petri Helenius
Christian Hiris wrote: About a year ago i observed strong nfs performance decrease when using RLT8139A nics. Nfs transfers leaded into high system load, because of an excessive high packet retransmission rate. Switching over to 3Com nics solved my problem. The specific model and it's

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Anderson
Steve Shorter wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 04:55:20PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: I have several heavily used NFS servers, currently running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. I'm getting jammed up with all my nfsd processes being busy, so clients see slow connections to the server. I have the nfsd

Max NFSD processes

2004-05-19 Thread Eric Anderson
I have several heavily used NFS servers, currently running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. I'm getting jammed up with all my nfsd processes being busy, so clients see slow connections to the server. I have the nfsd starting with a count of 20, which is the max set in the nfsd.c file. Are there any

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 19), Eric Anderson said: I have several heavily used NFS servers, currently running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. I'm getting jammed up with all my nfsd processes being busy, so clients see slow connections to the server. I have the nfsd starting with a count of 20, which is

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-19 Thread Eric Anderson
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 19), Eric Anderson said: I have several heavily used NFS servers, currently running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. I'm getting jammed up with all my nfsd processes being busy, so clients see slow connections to the server. I have the nfsd starting with a count