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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Igor Chudov <ichudov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS _write_ Performance became horrible overnight
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:08:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100716200802.GA13077@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinaHi1bZYRwI-jXiv_xPhQyvTUGmzBrfP-JRYs3-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:37:48AM -0500, Igor Chudov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to apologize in advance if, for any reason, my question
> is inappropriate for this mailing list. Please let meknow if that is
> the case.
> 
> This seems to be a very odd problem that I have isolated to NFS.
> 
> I have two NFS servers. Server A and server B. They serve unrelated
> shares.
> 
> Server A is actually two servers using DRBD to stay in sync.
> 
> I also have a number of NFS clients.
> 
> Both servers worked great up to about last night.
> 
> Somehow, NFS writes became extremely slow over Server A, for all
> clients, but not for Server B.
> 
> I have no idea, yet, what changed, but wanted to ask here if anyone
> ever had a similar problem (NFS performance going to shit overnight).
> 
> Some data points:
> 
> 1) From any client, reading files over NFS is fast
> 2) From any client, writing to NFS on Server A is VERY SLOW
> 3) From any client, writing to Samba shares on Server A is fast.
> 4) From any client, writing to NFS on Server B is fast.
> 5) When logged on to Server A, copying a file from local A filesystem
> to itself is fast.

How are you measuring those exactly?  (E.g. are you including the time
to do a sync after writing?)

--b.

> 
> IOW, everything is fast, EXCEPT for NFS writes to server A.
> 
> Any ideas what might cause this sudden deterioration of Server A?
> 
> Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> i
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-16 20:08 UTC|newest]

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2010-07-12 15:37 NFS _write_ Performance became horrible overnight Igor Chudov
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2010-07-16 20:08   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]

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