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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:33:15 +0000 (GMT)


> allow me to override the NIS settings. He's said I should lobby for a change
> of the Linux kernel's default from 4 to 8k instead.

The default of 4K is right especially for small machines. NFS lacks a
size negotiation phase.

> I reran this test with 8k wsize as well. Now I'm where it should be,
> at 18 seconds. Great!

Cool

> As an aside, for these mounts, I don't have the catch 22 I have
> with the other filesystems since I don't use a NIS map and hence can
> override the write size easily in my /etc/amd.conf.

Nod

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