I'm looking for recommendations for block sizes for NBD + SQUASHFS. Running 300 diskless clients off of one server.
Server <=4G bond0=> core-switch <=1G=> lab-switch <=100M=> clients. Majority of files during boot & app-launch are less than 64K uncompressed. I'm looking to optimize the network traffic a bit more by using squashfs + nbd for ro folders like /usr and /opt. Are there any recommendations for block size optimizations (nfs+nbd)? I may just have to do my own bench marks. nbd-client: -block-size <block_size> Use a blocksize of "block size". Default is 1024; allowed values are either 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096 mksquashfs: -b <block_size> set data block to <block_size>. Default 131072 bytes With the current NFS file system the majority of files are less than 64K so 64K rsize & wsize was found to give optimal performance. 32K or 64K++ degrade NFS performance for diskless clients. 64K was the best for uncompressed NFS. Thanks. -- Dean Montgomery Network Support Tech./Programmer School District #73 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
