On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:08 PM, belcampo wrote:

> On 2 other clients I mount the nfs-shares, each from a different server, 
> and test copy performance from the netbooks, with 2 different 1GB-files, 
> to local storage. But I'm not able to get more then 100 - 110Mb/s total. 
> I expected to get something in the region of 160-200Mb/s.
> 1 copy proces from server to client gives 80Mb/s
> 
> Do I expect too much ? I thought it should scale more or less lineair.

In case the others do not mention this, cp is not a good benchmark. It assumes 
local storage and uses a 4 KB chunk. You are better off testing with pvfs2-cp 
and experimenting with the parameters.

Scott


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