Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFS workloads

Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-19T08:06:17Z

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:20:11 -0500
Steve Rago <sar-a+KepyhlMvJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> I don't disagree, but "that's not what we do" hardly provides insight
> into making the judgment call. In this case, the variety of
> combinations of NFS server speed, NFS client speed, transmission link
> speed, client memory size, and server memory size argues for a tunable
> parameter, because one value probably won't work well in all
> combinations. Making it change dynamically based on these parameters
> is more complicated than these circumstances call for, IMHO.

if you as the expert do not know how to tune this... how is a sysadmin
supposed to know better?

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