On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:50:51AM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > > > : So, the big question is whether there is anything we can tune to > > > speed up > > > :the writes. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing > > > :most of the web processing. Overall performance on the reads seems to be > > > :best with nfs v3 over udp, which is what I'm using now. All of the web > > > :server directories are soft mounted directly, with no amd currently in > > > use.
Could tuning any of the NFS options in the kernel help? Matt, could you give any tips? > > I should have mentioned, I have 20 nfsiod's running. I started so many > > initially to help in the stress testing I was doing, but I left them > > running because the servers are handling from 2-4 requests per second and > > we have lots of ram in the boxes. Is there a way to figure out how many are > > getting used concurrently, or is too many not a problem? > > You need to run 'nfsd' on the servers, not nfsiod. > > nfsd - run on server > nfsiod - run on client He's talking about the client boxes, just measuring from the server side. Reference the second sentence at top. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Failing sardine factory cans employees! mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
