[ Caveat: I'm making this up as I go along ] On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:13:06PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Steve Ames remarked > > I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any > performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? > > Would my soul be tormented in purgatory for doing it? > > Just to be clear... I am wondering if mounting (on the NFS _server_) a > partition (that is exportable) as async will have any performance > benefits to the NFS clients?
As a first guess, probably not unless you have a large number of active clients. Any modern hard disc will outperform ethernet/fast ethernet, especially for larger read/writes. For large numbers of smaller operations, or when there is a large number of simultaneous outstanding requests from clients, maybe. I'd say watch the disc itself (iostat is your friend), and if it's pegged (especially large numbers of tps) async might buy you some increase. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fulle...@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ FutureSouth Communications | ISPHelp ISP Consulting "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
