nfs performance at high loads

2001-04-04 Thread Kapish K
Hello, We have been seeing some problems with running nfs benchmarks at very high loads and were wondering if somebody could show some pointers to where the problem lies. The system is a 2.4.0 kernel on a 6.2 Red at distribution ( so nfs utils from 6.2 and the nfsd of 2.4.0 ) - the

Re: Re: nfs performance at high loads

2001-04-09 Thread Kapish K
Hello, Thanks for the inputs.. But, if we cannot move back to 2.2.19 and need to stick with 2.4.0 for our own reasons concerning the work underway, would it be possible to give us a pointer us to the list of issues related to this problem in the vm, so that we may attempt to try and get so

Re: Re: nfs performance at high loads

2001-04-25 Thread Kapish K
Hello, I had sent in a note on nfs performance issues some time back, and Mark Hemment had been kind enough to point out to the zerocopy networking patch. Well, we tried with it, and it does seem to have some improvement, but it seems to have screwed up nfs performance a bit, because we se

nfs performance at high loads

2001-05-02 Thread Kapish K
Hello!! Well... thanks for all the suggestions, but we might need to stick with 2.4.2 for various other dependencies, but, I have a surprising thing to report on the observations. I tried the zero-copy patch on 2.4.0, and it seemed to help in solving the memory allocation problem, and also

nfs debug??

2001-05-03 Thread Kapish K
Hello, I am trying to be be able to debug nfsd to be able to find out the slow response times for the performance tests - I am able to set up all the required debug levels (d epending on nfs components in /proc/sys/sunrpc/nfsd_debug ), but I want to disable logging to console, as that eats