Re: [CentOS] NFS performance on CentOS 7

2015-05-12 Thread Steven Tardy

 On May 9, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Michael Eager ea...@eagerm.com wrote:
 
 I am setting up a file server with CentOS 7.  I'm seeing
 performance which is considerably slower than a similar
 server running CentOS 6.6.  A 3Gb directory can be copied
 to/from the CentOS 6.6 server in about 50 seconds.  The
 same directory takes about 270 seconds to copy to/from
 the CentOS 7 system.
 
 I see the same performance difference with NFS mounted
 file systems or using scp, so it doesn't appear to be
 an NFS issue.  The MTU on the NICs on both systems is
 1500, and changing it to 6000 on the CentOS 7 system had
 no effect.
 
 Anyone have any ideas what might cause this problem or
 how to fix it?

3GB/50seconds = 480Mbps

Can't speak directly to centos6/7 differences nor NFS on centos6/7

I've seen NFS(netapp filer to vmware host to windows VM) sustain 1Mbps. So 
the NFS protocol itself isn't the bottleneck given sufficient hardware.
Since scp performs similar to NFS the on the wire protocol isn't the problem.

Verify the MTU setting:
  ping a.b.c.d -M do -s 8972
Or in your case:
  ping a.b.c.d -M do -s 5972
(6000 is a very odd MTU)

I'd start by getting the latest/validated driver from $NICVendor.

What IO throughput does the local file system give?
Test with hdparm / dd / iometer / sqlio / cp -a /path /dev/null

Test sever to server with iperf as others suggested.

Hope that points you in the right direction.

Steven Tardy
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Re: [CentOS] NFS performance on CentOS 7

2015-05-11 Thread Marcelo Ricardo Leitner

On 09-05-2015 15:34, Michael Eager wrote:

I am setting up a file server with CentOS 7.  I'm seeing
performance which is considerably slower than a similar
server running CentOS 6.6.  A 3Gb directory can be copied
to/from the CentOS 6.6 server in about 50 seconds.  The
same directory takes about 270 seconds to copy to/from
the CentOS 7 system.

I see the same performance difference with NFS mounted
file systems or using scp, so it doesn't appear to be
an NFS issue.  The MTU on the NICs on both systems is
1500, and changing it to 6000 on the CentOS 7 system had
no effect.

Anyone have any ideas what might cause this problem or
how to fix it?



You may test only your network performance, using iperf, iperf3 or 
netperf, and then test your disk IO (others may indicate tools for 
this). Currently you are measuring two big subsystems which can have its 
down issues and/or affect each other. By splitting the test you may get 
a better picture of what is better/worse.


If you can sustain near line rate on iperf, the issue is probably 
somewhere else then.


  Marcelo

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Re: [CentOS] NFS performance on CentOS 7

2015-05-11 Thread Paul Heinlein

On Sat, 9 May 2015, Michael Eager wrote:

I am setting up a file server with CentOS 7.  I'm seeing performance 
which is considerably slower than a similar server running CentOS 
6.6.  A 3Gb directory can be copied to/from the CentOS 6.6 server in 
about 50 seconds.  The same directory takes about 270 seconds to 
copy to/from the CentOS 7 system.


I see the same performance difference with NFS mounted file systems 
or using scp, so it doesn't appear to be an NFS issue.  The MTU on 
the NICs on both systems is 1500, and changing it to 6000 on the 
CentOS 7 system had no effect.


Anyone have any ideas what might cause this problem or how to fix 
it?


My first guess would be that stat() operations are the bottleneck. Are 
you using network authentication of some kind? If so, I'd try to 
identify differences in the authentication cache.


For instance, CentOS 6 may be using nslcd or nscd, while CentOS 7 is 
using sssd or nslcd. Repeated UID/GID lookups absent effective 
cacheing will slow things down as you describe.


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Re: [CentOS] NFS performance on CentOS 7

2015-05-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message -
| I am setting up a file server with CentOS 7.  I'm seeing
| performance which is considerably slower than a similar
| server running CentOS 6.6.  A 3Gb directory can be copied
| to/from the CentOS 6.6 server in about 50 seconds.  The
| same directory takes about 270 seconds to copy to/from
| the CentOS 7 system.
| 
| I see the same performance difference with NFS mounted
| file systems or using scp, so it doesn't appear to be
| an NFS issue.  The MTU on the NICs on both systems is
| 1500, and changing it to 6000 on the CentOS 7 system had
| no effect.
| 
| Anyone have any ideas what might cause this problem or
| how to fix it?
| 
| --
| Michael Eager  ea...@eagercon.com
| 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-325-8077

Do you have IPTables or FirewallD turned on?  Are you using NFSv3 or NFSv4?  
Are these machines on the same switch?  Any errors seen in `netstat -i` output? 
 There could be lots of reasons for this problem from cabling to switch/host 
misconfiguration.

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[CentOS] NFS performance on CentOS 7

2015-05-09 Thread Michael Eager

I am setting up a file server with CentOS 7.  I'm seeing
performance which is considerably slower than a similar
server running CentOS 6.6.  A 3Gb directory can be copied
to/from the CentOS 6.6 server in about 50 seconds.  The
same directory takes about 270 seconds to copy to/from
the CentOS 7 system.

I see the same performance difference with NFS mounted
file systems or using scp, so it doesn't appear to be
an NFS issue.  The MTU on the NICs on both systems is
1500, and changing it to 6000 on the CentOS 7 system had
no effect.

Anyone have any ideas what might cause this problem or
how to fix it?

--
Michael Eagerea...@eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306  650-325-8077
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