On 2010-11-14, Steven Surdock <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, I'm attempting to use an OBSD 4.8-stable machine as an NFS > server for storing snapshots from an ESXi 3.5 server. Unfortunately my > NFS performance seems relatively poor at about 55 Mbps (6 MBps). Both > machines are linked up at 1 Gbps via an HP ProCurve 1850G and I'm > writing to wd0. I've looked at disk i/o, upped > net.inet.tcp.recvspace/sendspace (NFS session is using TCP) and done my > share of googling, but I'm at a bit of a loss on how to figure out where > my problem lies. Any pointers would be appreciated.
When I ran ESXi 3.5 I found i/o was painfully slow, even with local disk (and NFS performance with an OpenBSD server was appalling). In general i/o performance in ESXi 4.1 seems a lot better, but I haven't tried it with OpenBSD as NFS server yet.
