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.
> > > :
> > > :thanks,
> > > :
> > > :Doug
> > >
> > > Well, NFS buffers are usually sent over the network the moment they
> > > are full. If you are not running any nfsiod's
> >
> > 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.
Sorry I wasn't clear. That's what I get for writing posts like this when
I'm tired. In that paragraph "servers" refers to the freebsd cgi/web
servers that are acting as NFS clients to the sun boxes.
Doug
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