Roy Wright wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Hal Martin wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Sorry if it seems like this is a repeat question, but I've gone through >> my Gentoo list for the past 2 years and none of the answers provided for >> previous threads on this seem to work for me. Here's the situation: >> >> >> /etc/exports: >> /mnt/daigo 192.168.0.31(rw,insecure) >> > > A couple of years ago, I experienced the same type of issue where nfs > performance was a lot lower than smb. It turned out a switch I was > using was bad. I suggest first minimizing your testing network, and > then swapping components such as switches. Others on the LinuxMCE > list had issues with specific network drivers. > > I current use nfs between kubuntu, gentoo, and macbook (10.5.8 2GHz > Core 2 Duo) systems. I have media volumes on the kubuntu, and both > gentoo systems. I use autofs on each system for mounting the nfs > volumes. Here's an example of the settings: > > /etc/exports: > /var/media > 192.168.80.0/24(async,no_subtree_check,rw,no_root_squash,insecure) That's fixed it! Thanks! I'm now getting ~50MB/s over NFS. System load is still up around 6, but I can live with that. > > /etc/auto.media: > royw-gentoo -rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,timeo=30,rw > royw-gentoo:/var/media > dad-kubuntu -rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,timeo=30,rw > dad-kubuntu:/var/media > > My macbook "Connect to Server": > nfs://royw-gentoo/var/media/public/data > nfs://dad-kubuntu/var/media/public/data > > The no_subtree_check and the no_root_squash parameters are left over > from when I used LinuxMCE. > > The insecure parameter is required to allow the macbook to connect. > > The rsize and wsize seem to work fine for streaming dvd iso images to > my gentoo XBMC system over gigabit ethernet. I've also streamed a few > movies to my macbook and did not notice any performance issues. Streaming movies from my gentoo box to my macbook doesn't present any performance issues as the data rate is usually fairly low. > > My media drives are WDC WD10EACS (1TB). > > How are you testing performance? With test procedure I can try to > duplicate. Large files. I'm transferring 4-7GB .mkv files, but I believe any large file would do.
-Hal > > HTH, > Roy > > >
