Hi,
on one of our students' lab the home directories of the students are
mounted via NFS.
Our main application (www.codelite.org) seems to write a lot of small
chunks to files in the
students' home directories.
Thus, just finishing Codelite takes 100 seconds while the same version
on a pure local machine
takes about 2 seconds for that.
A simple test
dd bs=80 count=10000 if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/Test
shows only 80 Kb/sec (speed of a floppy drive).
The machine was idle and connected to a dedicated, nearly idle server
by a network
of 1Gb/sec.
Does anybody have some hints on how to speed up such an NFS3 setup?
Many thanks for some clues.
By the way, NFS was set up with the async option.
Helmut.
