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From: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@badula.org>
Cc: Alan Powell <lakerfaniam2@yahoo.com>,
	Steve Dickson <SteveD@RedHat.com>,
	nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: nfsd tuning - please help me!
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:59:22 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030217025922.GA20685@outblaze.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302142032.h1EKWCIJ006931@buggy.badula.org>

Maybe RH can put their kernel's through a fstress routine

http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/fstress/

According to the author Darell Anderson,

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1126014+0+archive/2003/freebsd-current/20030216.freebsd-current

It can emulates SPECsfs

> > Unfortunately, we've tried all that already. So given
> > that we are not hardware/network constrained, does all
> > this mean that the Linux kernel NFS runs into
> > performance issues beyond 100 file reads/sec?
> 
> It's quite possible...
> 
> What I'd recommend, however, is testing this again with a non-RedHat
> kernel on the client. More precisely, try running 2.4.20 plus the 
> NFSALL patch from Trond's site <http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/>.
> 
> We've had significant performance problems over here with the RedHat
> kernels, which mostly went away when we replaced the NFS client code
> with 2.4.20+NFSALL.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Ion


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-17  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-13 22:24 nfsd tuning - please help me! Alan Powell
2003-02-14 11:33 ` Steve Dickson
2003-02-14 17:44   ` Alan Powell
2003-02-14 20:32     ` Ion Badulescu
2003-02-17  2:59       ` Yusuf Goolamabbas [this message]
2003-02-18  2:28         ` Alan Powell

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