Re: NFS writes calling FSYNC and ASYNC not consistent

2009-01-30 Thread Brent Jones
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Apologies for being terse, in a hurry here. > > 1) -o async doesn't work with NFS, don't use that. > 2) how big are the text versus binary files? I tested with a 6MB text file, and a 2GB binary file. Text file would go ~1MB/sec, issuing F

Re: NFS writes calling FSYNC and ASYNC not consistent

2009-01-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Apologies for being terse, in a hurry here. 1) -o async doesn't work with NFS, don't use that. 2) how big are the text versus binary files? 3) how are you copying them over nfs? I suspect, (could be wrong of course) that the ascii files are a lot smaller than the binary files, so what's happening

NFS writes calling FSYNC and ASYNC not consistent

2009-01-28 Thread Brent Jones
Hello FreeBSD users, I am running into some performance problems with NFSv3/v4 mounts. I have a Sun X4540 running OpenSolaris 2008.11 with ZFS exporting NFS shares The NFS clients are a FreeBSD 6.3 32 bit, quad core xeon with 4GB ram and a FreeBSD 7.1 32bit with same hardware. The issue I am seein