On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:19:10AM +0100, Angel Blazquez wrote: > Hello, > > We are expecting incredible overload in a NFS server. A top shows nfsd > consuming most of the CPU: > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 6000 root -8 0 1204K 660K biord 1 124:15 27.88% 27.88% nfsd > 6002 root 4 0 1204K 660K *Giant 0 124:18 17.58% 17.58% nfsd > 6006 root 4 0 1204K 660K *Giant 0 123:38 10.21% 10.21% nfsd > 6005 root 4 0 1204K 660K *Giant 0 123:36 7.47% 7.47% nfsd > 6003 root 4 0 1204K 660K *Giant 0 123:08 4.15% 4.15% nfsd > 6001 root 4 0 1204K 660K *Giant 0 123:16 2.83% 2.83% nfsd > > Memory looks fine: > > Mem: 27M Active, 910M Inact, 136M Wired, 51M Cache, 112M Buf, 1828K Free > Swap: 2048M Total, 72K Used, 2048M Free > > Typing in the nfs server (console/ssh) becomes terrible, the server does > not reply well. > > We are running this nfs server in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p23 on a Compaq > Proliant server with a Compaq Smart Array 5300 that comunicates with a > array of disks:
You will experience *much* better performance if you upgrade to 6.0. Kris
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