What does your mount command look like?
Dustin Puryear wrote: > I'm curious if anyone has had any performance issues with NFS over GigE? > We are bringing up a pretty standard VMware scenario: VMware servers > are connected to GigE with bonded pair and our Dell NF500 NAS is running > RAID10. Fast and easy. Only.. > > The NFS performance sucks. I need to get some firm numbers, but it looks > like we can't get NFS to perform better than if it were on a Fast > Ethernet network. That said, if we change over to mounting our VM > filesystem using CIFS we can scream at pretty much wire speeds. (By the > way, if using CentOS 5.0 and mount.cifs, upgrade to 5.1 because the 5.0 > kernel will panic sometimes with a mounted CIFS in high usage.) > > Here's out setup: > > 2 Dell 1850's CentOS 5.1 with Intel GigE cards (2 cards each, 2 ports > per card, 1 card = bonded pair = VMware Network, 1 card = 1 port = Admin > Network) > > 1 Dell NF500 running Windows Storage Server 2003 with 4 disk RAID10 and GigE > > Regardless of whether we use bonding/LAG (Dell PowerConnect 5000+) or > just simple GigE over one port, our NFS sucks it. CIFS screams though > and pretty much saturates the connection. > > Right now I've tested Linux <--> NAS. When I have time I'll try Linux to > Linux. > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
