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From: "J.Rinas" <jrinas@gmx.de>
To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: invalidate cache / NFS performance on a diskless system
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:18:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412091718.48973.jrinas@gmx.de> (raw)

Hello!

We've set up our network using a linux 2.6.9 server and
abt. 25-30 linux clients using NFS.
The clients are booting through PXE and work in a diskless fashion.
i.e.=20
they mount their root directory via NFS
only /var and /tmp are on a tmpfs device.


To improve performance we have currently set the root directory=20
(including the /usr tree) to use the mount options

  ro,
  noatime,
  v3,
  rsize=3D32768,wsize=3D32768,
  actimeo=3D180,
  hard,tcp,nocto,nolock


To further improve the performance of the clients,=20
I'd like to increase  actimeo to abt. 9 hours.
But this leads to severe problems, if some small configurations are done=20
during the day (e.g. installing new soft or configuration work...):
The changes do not apprear on the client nodes in reasonable time.

So I'd like to know if there is a switch to invalidate the whole NFS / VFS?=
=20
cache at once!
(e.g. an    echo something > /proc/somewhere  )?

An there any other hints/experiences to improve performance on such a syste=
m?
(Our new server with 10k rpm Disks is already ordered!)

tnx fr ur help
  J=FCrgen


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             reply	other threads:[~2004-12-10  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-09 16:18 J.Rinas [this message]
2004-12-10  5:34 ` invalidate cache / NFS performance on a diskless system Trond Myklebust

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