Re: 2.6.20-rc1: CIFS cheers, NFS4 jeers

Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28T02:35:18Z

Florin Iucha wrote:
> Hello, it's me and my 70 GB of photos again.
>
> I have tested both CIFS and NFSv4 clients in kernel 2.6.20-rc1 . CIFS
> passed with flying colors and NFSv4 stalled after 7 GB.
>
> Configuration:
>
> Server: PIII/1GHz, 512 MB RAM, Debian testing,
> distro kernel 2.6.18-3-vserver-686, Intel E1000 NIC,
> filesystem 170 GB ext3 with default mkfs values on a SATA disk
>
> Client: AMD x2 4200+, 2 GB RAM, Debian testing/unstable
> kernel 2.6.20-rc1, Marvell SKGE onboard,
> filesystem 120 GB ext3 with default mkfs values on a SATA disk
>
Neil has been diddling NFS, I did some light testing with 2.6.20-git14
with 190GB of mp3 and mpg files (library of congress folk music) without
hangs. Just "did it work" tests, copy 20-30GB to server, do md5 on the
data pulled back from the server.

Didn't hang, performance testing later.

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