Jan Catrysse wrote:
Hello all,
I am having some problems with NFS and slow performance.
This is the scenario:
2x FreeBSD 7.1. (Raid storage server, MP, the works)
GB Lan interface between them.
When I transfer 1 big file the speed is never higher than 10MB/s with a
peak
to 14MB/s.
When I transfer multiple files at the same time speed is about 10MB/s per
thread.
Disk speed 100MB/s
Network speed using samba 60MB/s (limited by clients disk speed)
Tried enabling NFSlockd, NFSstatd but that changes nothing.
Any help or hunch would be greatly appreciated.
Here are some ideas for testing:
* Any firewall in between them? Do you have network errors?
* Any other network problems, like DNS lookup failures? (not that it
should matter for sustained tranfers but still...)
* Are you using TCP or UDP for NFS? TCP should be better in all cases.
* Have you monitored the system with top? Try hitting S and H in
top while transfering files, see if anything looks suspicious.
* Run iostat 1, check tps and KB/t.
* What file system are you using?
Hello Ivoras,
NFS TCP did the trick. I tried it already but I didn't properly dismount the
volumes before remounting them on TCP. I did a mount -u -a instead.
Using netstat it became clear NFS was still using UDP. A umount and mount -a
did the trick!
Thnx!
Jan
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