On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:28:56PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
...
> A look at "nfsstat" might help, as might "netstat -s".
>
> In particular, I suggest looking at the "retrans" counter in nfsstat.
When doing a 'cp largefile1 largefile2' on the client, I see approx. 10
retransmissions per second in nfsstat.
I don't really know if this is a lot...
I also see packets dropped in ifconfig - approx. 10 per second... I
wonder if these two are related.
Client has an intel e1000 card - I just set the RX ring buffer to the
max. of 4096 (up from the default of 256), but this doesn't seem to help
a lot (I see the 10 drops/sec with the large RX buffer).
I use NAPI - is there anything else I can do to make the card not drop
packets? I'm just assuming that this might at least be a part of the
problem, but with large RX ring and NAPI I don't know how much else I
can do to not make the box drop incoming data...
> When you say that TCP did not help, please note that if retrans is high,
> then using TCP with a large value for timeo (for instance -otimeo=600)
> is a good idea. It is IMHO a bug for the "mount" program to be setting
> default timeout values of less than 30 seconds when using TCP.
I can try that.
Thanks!
--
/ jakob
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