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From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: Peter Astrand <astrand@cendio.se>
Cc: Murali Bashyam <mbcoder@gmail.com>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Improving unfsd scalability
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:22:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061130102238.GA11918@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611301056440.15692@maggie.lkpg.cendio.se>

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 11:00:25AM +0100, Peter Astrand wrote:
> > Has anyone attempted to speedup concurrently handling many client NFS
> > requests in unfsd? Any experience regarding multi-threading or running
> > multiple processes within unfsd? Any do's and don'ts?
> 
> This is an interesting topic. I guess it depends a lot on which RPC 
> library you are using. The "normal" ONC RPC implementation, found in glibc 
> for example, is as far as I know not thread safe. This might be a problem. 
> Correct me if I'm wrong.

unfsd was able to run several process in parallel since I think 1998. Note
it's multi-process not multithread, so it's a tad inefficient - but I
haven't heard of any problems in that area.  unfsd was running on some
machines in the Suse R&D network as late as a few months ago, with 8
processes in parallel.

Olaf
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-30 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-30  6:54 Improving unfsd scalability Murali Bashyam
2006-11-30 10:00 ` Peter Astrand
2006-11-30 10:22   ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
2006-11-30 17:58     ` Murali Bashyam
2006-11-30 18:13       ` Olaf Kirch
2006-11-30 18:27         ` Peter Astrand
2006-11-30 20:01           ` Olaf Kirch
2006-12-01 11:41             ` Improving unfsd scalability: TI-RPC Tony Reix
2006-12-01 13:52               ` Peter Astrand
2006-12-04  8:51                 ` Improving unfsd scalability: TI-RPC test suite Tony Reix
2006-12-01 16:50               ` Improving unfsd scalability: TI-RPC Steve Dickson
2006-11-30 18:03   ` Improving unfsd scalability Murali Bashyam

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