Peter Staubach wrote: > Wendy Cheng wrote: >> >>> top - 15:50:56 up 20 days, 1:33, 9 users, load average: 3.42, >>> 2.95, 2.38 >>> >>> 19200 geo0501 15 0 75076 5224 3480 S 2 0.1 0:07.94 >>> smbd 2336 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 1 >>> 0.0 57:07.70 kjournald 2334 root 10 -5 0 >>> 0 0 S 1 0.0 33:19.89 kjournald 2279 root 10 >>> -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 15:10.98 md0_raid1 2283 >>> root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 24:45.79 >>> md1_raid1 3935 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 >>> 0.0 14:04.25 nfsd 3943 root 15 0 0 >>> 0 0 S 0 0.0 14:18.43 nfsd 3947 root 15 >>> 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 13:57.06 nfsd 8325 >>> ed0127 15 0 75044 4812 3264 S 0 0.1 0:01.29 >>> smbd >> >> Intuitively (based on ext3's journal threads info above) I would >> suspect this is due to the change of the export default option from >> "async" to "sync" between 2.6.9 and 2.6.18 kernels. So go to your >> /etc/exports file and explicitly set the export option to "async" to >> see whether you can get the performance back. >> >> e.g. changes "/server *(rw)" to "/server *(async, rw)". > > While this may or may not restore your performance aspects, it > is not safe to make this change. The change was made for a > reason. Not to start a flame war :) but please read his email. His *old* system, that uses "async" option", has been running fine for several years. Why all of sudden, an "async" option is such a big issue ?
-- Wendy > > Please any and all other possibilities before making this change. > It is not free. > > Thanx... > > ps ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being discontinued. Please subscribe to [email protected] instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
