Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-28 Thread Scott W
Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Michael Conlen wrote: [ ... ] The production system will use dual channel U320 RAID controllers with 12 disks per channel, so disk shouldn't be an issue, and it will connect with GigE, so network is plenty fine, now I'm on to CPU. Sounds like

NFS server usage

2004-02-26 Thread Michael Conlen
This might be more of an NFS question in general, but I'm not sure, so I thought I'd try here. I've got a FreeBSD NFS server behind two FreeBSD webservers (all 4.9) who load all their pages from the NFS filesystem and I'm seeing less traffic from the NFS server than I expected. The webservers a

Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Michael Conlen wrote: Does FreeBSD's NFS implementation allow for caching of documents on the client side, either its self or through the VM system's inactive pages? Yes to both. NFS clients typically use something called biod or nfsoid, which implements some combin

Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-26 Thread Michael Conlen
On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: Well, you are going to be bottlenecked potentially by your network or by the maximum I/O rate that your NFS server can sustain. Your data suggests you ought to be able to handle about two orders of magnitude more net traffic, if you're over a

Re: NFS server usage

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:57 PM, Michael Conlen wrote: [ ... ] The production system will use dual channel U320 RAID controllers with 12 disks per channel, so disk shouldn't be an issue, and it will connect with GigE, so network is plenty fine, now I'm on to CPU. Sounds like you've gotten nice hardwa