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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:20:11 -0500
Steve Rago <sar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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