Re: NFS client performance 1.5 orders of magnitude too slow? (fwd)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:23:48 +0000 (GMT)

> I assume you're interested in feedback: it appears that it's still broken,
> and in fact has gotten somewhat slower compared to 2.2.3.

Only if you misconfigure it

> (15 seconds for 2.2.3-ac1 vs. 14 seconds for 2.2.3). This is with a
> default wsize of 4k.

You misconfigured it. Use 8K block sizes for Solaris Sparc.

> My other test set, where I write to a synchronously writing BSD ffs server
> did get slightly faster (from 30 seconds down to 26 seconds; the BSD nfs
> client took 18 seconds under identical conditions.)

Thats a more useful benchmark.

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