Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
There is one more point to check : >From your mount information , in the server , directories are on DIFFERENT drives . Assume one of the drives is very "INTELLIGENT" to save power . During local reading , due to reading speed , it may not go to "SLEEP" , but during network access , it may go t

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 03/16/2013 10:15 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Tim Daneliuk mailto:tun...@tundraware.com>> wrote: On 03/16/2013 05:43 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Michael W. Lucas in Absolute FeeBSD , 2nd Edition , ( ISBN : 978-1-59327-151-0 ) ,

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 03/16/2013 05:43 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > >> >> > Michael W. Lucas in Absolute FeeBSD , 2nd Edition , ( ISBN : >> 978-1-59327-151-0 ) , >> is suggesting the following ( p. 248 ) : >> >> In client ( mount , or , fstab ) , use o

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 03/16/2013 05:43 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Michael W. Lucas in Absolute FeeBSD , 2nd Edition , ( ISBN : 978-1-59327-151-0 ) , is suggesting the following ( p. 248 ) : In client ( mount , or , fstab ) , use options ( -o tcp , intr , soft , -w=32768 , -r=32768 ) tcp option will

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread iamatt
just slap an netapp 8.x with an avere flash box in front if you want NFS performance... or isilon. On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > >> On 03/16/2013 04:20 PM, Mehmet Erol San

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 03/16/2013 04:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > >> >> >> > >> With respect to your mount points : /usr1 is spanning TWO different >> partitions : >> >> /dev/ad4s1f390G127G231G35%/usr1 >> /dev/ad6s1d902G710G

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 03/16/2013 04:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: With respect to your mount points : /usr1 is spanning TWO different partitions : /dev/ad4s1f390G127G231G35%/usr1 /dev/ad6s1d902G710G120G86%/usr1/BKU because /usr1/BKU is a sub-directory of /usr1

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
e switch into which it connects to > 1000Base > because the LM12 machine had a built in 1000Base NIC. I also changed > the cables on both machines to ensure they were not the problem. Prior > to this, I was bandwidth constrained by the 100Base so I never saw NFS > performance as an i

NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
trained by the 100Base so I never saw NFS performance as an issue. When I upgraded, I expected faster transfers and when I didn't get them, I started this whole investigation. So ... I'm stumped: - It's not the drive or SATA ports because both drives show comparable performan

Re: Weird NFS Performance Problem

2013-03-15 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE exhibiting weird NFS performance issues > and I'd appreciate any suggestions. > > I have several different directories exported from the same filesystem. > The machine that mounts them (a L

Weird NFS Performance Problem

2013-03-15 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I have a FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE exhibiting weird NFS performance issues and I'd appreciate any suggestions. I have several different directories exported from the same filesystem. The machine that mounts them (a Linux Mint 12 desktop) writes nice and fast to one of them, but writes to the othe

Re: Asymmetric NFS Performance

2012-02-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 02), Tim Daneliuk said: > Server:FBSD 8.2-STABLE / MTU set to 15000 > Client:Linux Mint 12 / MTU set to 8192 > NFS Mount Options: rw,soft,intr > Problem: > > Throughput copying from Server to Client is about 2x that when copying a > file from clie

Asymmetric NFS Performance

2012-02-02 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Server:FBSD 8.2-STABLE / MTU set to 15000 Client:Linux Mint 12 / MTU set to 8192 NFS Mount Options: rw,soft,intr Problem: Throughput copying from Server to Client is about 2x that when copying a file from client to server. The client does have a SSD whereas the server h

Re: NFS performance-tuning FreeBSD <-> NetApp

2009-08-03 Thread Steven Kreuzer
s for mount_nfs, no kernel tuning), performance is very sluggish: I've got ~250Mbit/sec performance with peaks around 400Mbit/sec. Sure enough, neither CPU (server and NetApp) nor network performance is the problem here - it must be something NFS-related. Any ideas on how to increas my NFS-p

Re: NFS performance-tuning FreeBSD <-> NetApp

2009-08-03 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
e with peaks around 400Mbit/sec. > Sure enough, neither CPU (server and NetApp) nor network performance > is the problem here - it must be something NFS-related. > Any ideas on how to increas my NFS-performance? (Special mount > parameters, kernel tuning,...)

NFS performance-tuning FreeBSD <-> NetApp

2009-08-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
very sluggish: I've got ~250Mbit/sec performance with peaks around 400Mbit/sec. Sure enough, neither CPU (server and NetApp) nor network performance is the problem here - it must be something NFS-related. Any ideas on how to increas my NFS-performance? (Special mount parameters, kernel tuning,...)

Re: very poor NFS performance from a beta3

2007-11-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 18 November 2007 05:59:12 am Kris Kennaway wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > > i updated my workstatino to beta3, and then got on a 6.2-p8 machine and > > mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj from the beta3. tried to installkernel, > > but it moved as painful pace. would get to the point where

Re: very poor NFS performance from a beta3

2007-11-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 18 November 2007 05:59:12 am Kris Kennaway wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > > i updated my workstatino to beta3, and then got on a 6.2-p8 machine and > > mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj from the beta3. tried to installkernel, > > but it moved as painful pace. would get to the point where

Re: very poor NFS performance from a beta3

2007-11-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jonathan Horne wrote: i updated my workstatino to beta3, and then got on a 6.2-p8 machine and mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj from the beta3. tried to installkernel, but it moved as painful pace. would get to the point where it moves kernel to kernel.old, and would just pause for a long time.

very poor NFS performance from a beta3

2007-11-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
i updated my workstatino to beta3, and then got on a 6.2-p8 machine and mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj from the beta3. tried to installkernel, but it moved as painful pace. would get to the point where it moves kernel to kernel.old, and would just pause for a long time. file transfer showed a

Re: Question on NFS performance

2006-05-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:54:39PM +0200, Valerio daelli wrote: > Hi all > we have a FreeBSD 5.4 exporting some NFS filesystem to a cluster of gentoo > boxes > (kernel 2.6.12). > Our exported storage disk is an Apple XRaid. > We have Gigabit Ethernet both on the client and the server. > We would l

Question on NFS performance

2006-05-10 Thread Valerio daelli
Hi all we have a FreeBSD 5.4 exporting some NFS filesystem to a cluster of gentoo boxes (kernel 2.6.12). Our exported storage disk is an Apple XRaid. We have Gigabit Ethernet both on the client and the server. We would like to improve our read performance. This is our performance: about 10Mb read

Re: poor NFS performance in 5.x

2003-11-27 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thursday 27 November 2003 10:28, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Try reading the basic documentation that comes with 5.2-BETA, for > example the /usr/src/UPDATING file, which tells you clearly that > performance is not expected to be good unless you disable the standard I've been running CURRENT on test

Re: poor NFS performance in 5.x

2003-11-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:12:21AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi :) > > I upgraded two boxes to FreeBSD-5.2-BETA a week ago and I noticed that NFS > performance is very slow compared to 4.x-RELEASE. > Before, NFS transfers were between 10 and 12 MB/s and now I don't go

poor NFS performance in 5.x

2003-11-27 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I upgraded two boxes to FreeBSD-5.2-BETA a week ago and I noticed that NFS performance is very slow compared to 4.x-RELEASE. Before, NFS transfers were between 10 and 12 MB/s and now I don't go past 7 MB/s. My exports/mount settings did not change and the hardware is obviously the

Re: Improving FreeBSD NFS performance (esp. directory updates)

2003-06-06 Thread Thomas A. Limoncelli
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:05:04PM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:54:00PM -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > > I have a NFS server with (so far) a single NFS client. Things work > > fine, however if (on the client) I do an "rm -rf foo" on a large (deep > > and wide) directory tr

Re: Improving FreeBSD NFS performance (esp. directory updates)

2003-05-30 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:54:00PM -0400, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > I have a NFS server with (so far) a single NFS client. Things work > fine, however if (on the client) I do an "rm -rf foo" on a large (deep > and wide) directory tree the tty receives "NFS server not > responding"/"NFS server ok"

Improving FreeBSD NFS performance (esp. directory updates)

2003-05-30 Thread Tom Limoncelli
I have a NFS server with (so far) a single NFS client. Things work fine, however if (on the client) I do an "rm -rf foo" on a large (deep and wide) directory tree the tty receives "NFS server not responding"/"NFS server ok" messages. I don't think the network is at fault, nor is the server rea

Re: nfs performance

2002-12-30 Thread John Martinez
On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Scott Ballantyne wrote: I could never get NFS to work reliably on Linux I'd like to chime in on this. There are some serious problems with Linux NFS support. At the company where I work, we use Solaris NFS servers on Sun hardware, with a mix

Re: nfs performance

2002-12-30 Thread Scott Ballantyne
> recently I discovered problems with my FreeBSD nfs server. > I mount my /home/user from my linux box via automounter/nfs from my server. > They are connected with a switch on a 100baseTX Ethernet. Now, whenever > I copy large files from a local driver to my home dir or do anything > else that inv

nfs performance

2002-12-30 Thread Ralph Kube
Hi list, recently I discovered problems with my FreeBSD nfs server. I mount my /home/user from my linux box via automounter/nfs from my server. They are connected with a switch on a 100baseTX Ethernet. Now, whenever I copy large files from a local driver to my home dir or do anything else that invo

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-12 Thread Tillman
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:44:47PM +0100, Lasse Laursen wrote: > How is the optimum number of nfsd processes determined on the server? On > our current setup we have 4 nfs daemons running serving 3 clients > (webservers) > > Is the number of daemons to start determined by the number of clients or

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-06 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 19:52, BigBrother wrote: > > > Although the man page says this, I *think* that the communication is done > like this > > CLIENT <=> NFSIOD(CLIENT) <=> NFSIOD (SERVER) <=> NFSD > > which menas that NFSIOD 'speak' with each other and then they pass the > requests to NFS. >

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-06 Thread BigBrother
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Lasse Laursen wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. I have some additional questions: > > > Well the only rule for selecting the number of nfsiods and nfsd is the > > maximum number of threads that are going to request an NFS operation on > > the server. For example assume

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread Lasse Laursen
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I have some additional questions: > Well the only rule for selecting the number of nfsiods and nfsd is the > maximum number of threads that are going to request an NFS operation on > the server. For example assume that your web server has a typical number > of httpd dam

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread BigBrother
>> According to my experience UDP is much preffered for NFS transport >> protocols. Also try to have the NFSIOD daemon being executed on every >> machine by putting in the /etc/rc.conf >> >> nfs_client_enable="YES" >> nfs_client_flags="-n 10" >> >> >> [u may put more than 10 instances if u suspec

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread Lasse Laursen
Hi, > According to my experience UDP is much preffered for NFS transport > protocols. Also try to have the NFSIOD daemon being executed on every > machine by putting in the /etc/rc.conf > > nfs_client_enable="YES" > nfs_client_flags="-n 10" > > > [u may put more than 10 instances if u suspect that

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread Steve Shorter
Howdy! I have done some simulations with NFS servers - Intel SCB2 (4G RAM) serving files from 500G RAID devices. I created a treed directory structure with 300G of 32k files that approximates our "homedirectory" structure. I had about 6 diskless front ends (tyan 2518 with

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread BigBrother
>I recently did some research into NFS performance tuning and came across >the suggestion in an article on onlamp.com by Michael Lucas, that 32768 >is a good value for the read and write buffers. His suggestion is these >flags: > >tcp,intr,nfsv3,-r=32768,-w=32768 > >I use

NFS Performance woes

2002-11-04 Thread Duncan Anker
I recently did some research into NFS performance tuning and came across the suggestion in an article on onlamp.com by Michael Lucas, that 32768 is a good value for the read and write buffers. His suggestion is these flags: tcp,intr,nfsv3,-r=32768,-w=32768 I used these options (I found tcp was