From: eric whiting <ewhiting@amis.com>
To: Daniel Barbar <dbarbar@legato.com>
Cc: "'nfs@lists.sourceforge.net'" <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Maximum number of nfsd daemons?
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:28:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D48B8FD.2A5094@amis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FB5B6B9A4BA0104886C8394BB2B7C7B803ACAD5A@TOMBO.legato.com
What OS are the clients running? If they are solaris boxes you might
want to consider the NFS/TCP patches for the linux NFS server -- NFS/UDP
over a WAN can have problems. TCP might help out some.
eric
Daniel Barbar wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We recently moved one of our NFS servers from a Sun machine running
> Solaris 7 to an Intel box running SuSE Linux 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18). We are
> experiencing some (rather heavy) performance problems, more so for clients
> accesing the service over our WAN link.
> I'm starting to go through the excerise of tuning the NFS system, and
> started first by trying to increase the number of nfsd process. It seems
> that there is a hard coded limit of 128 processes, is that correct? If true,
> is it because one shouldn't expect any substantial performance increase by
> setting the number of nfsd threads to a number larger than 128?
> Thanks in advance for your help. Regards,
>
> ---
> Daniel Barbar
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-01 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-01 3:45 Maximum number of nfsd daemons? Daniel Barbar
2002-08-01 4:27 ` Neil Brown
2002-08-01 17:43 ` Philippe Gramoullé
2002-08-07 11:04 ` Neil Brown
2002-08-07 13:07 ` Philippe Gramoullé
2002-08-07 20:18 ` Neil Brown
2002-08-01 4:28 ` eric whiting [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-01 15:30 Daniel Barbar
2002-08-02 0:32 ` Neil Brown
2002-08-02 14:03 ` Andreas Behnert
2002-08-02 17:52 ` Tom McNeal
2002-08-02 17:05 ` Bruce Robertson
2002-08-02 21:18 ` Neil Brown
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