async vs. sync

[Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>]

> On a completely seperate note, Linux-to-Linux NFS file writes
> only seem to be fast if we publish the serving Linux volume
> as asynchronous (default setting is synchronous which is slow).
>

Yeah, we just observed something similar.=20

Here some numbers for write speed of the clients:

linux-2.6.7:
async: 11MB/s
sync, wdelay: 2-3MB/s
sync, no_wdelay: 7MB/s

linux-2.4.27-rc3:
async: 11MB/s
sync, wdelay: 2-3MB/s
sync, no_wdelay: 2-3MB/s

The kernel version corresponds to the server kernel, all clients still run=
=20
2.4.26.

Unfortunality switching the server to 2.6.7 makes the server crash every=20
morning on running the cron-jobs with page allocation errors, so keeping=20
2.6.x is currently not an option. At least not as long as those errors seem=
=20
to be tolerated by the kernel maintainers :(

Any ideas whats the issue with sync vs async in 2.4.x?

Thanks,
	Bernd




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Bernd Schubert
Physikalisch Chemisches Institut / Theoretische Chemie
Universit=E4t Heidelberg
INF 229
69120 Heidelberg
e-mail: bernd.schubert@pci.uni-heidelberg.de




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