On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > > Thanks. > > > There's an NFS Howto that has a section on tuning parameters. I've had > > some improvements by tuning wsize and rsize parameters. Occasionally > > I've noticed problems with Solaris clients and I'm currently having a > > problem with an NFS exported ReiserFS partition. Otherwise, it has been > > fine. > > I'm not saying NFS isn't "fine" with linux. I've used it a lot also. But > I'm interested in ways of making it perform its best. In the past I've > heard of patches to improve linux NFS performance, so that's why I posted > the question ;-)
The specific setion I was referring to is: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/performance.html At a former company I benchmarked many of the settings and found that almost all of them were dependent on the usage. I.e., there was no magic bullet. If I can get authorization to publish the notes I'll post them on my site. > > As far as ReiserFS with NFS, DON'T do it. Unless they have fixed their > problems, reiser is NOT 100% compatible with NFS. At one time I built an > NFS server using reiserfs with knfsd and had MAJOR problems with high > loads of nfs activity. It's a fact that reiser has problems with knfsd, > and I don't know if they've ever fixed it. It does work well with nfsd > (the user-space nfs daemon), but that makes it terribly slow and uses up a > lot of resources (cpu+ram) in comparison with knfsd. > The normal NFS exports seem to work fine. The specific issue I have is with an NFS root filesystem reporting stale file handles. We think we've determined the kernel code that's causing the error and it's not related to ReiserFS itself.
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