On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:34:55AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> UDP/NFSv3:
Don't use UDP. It won't help you with this problem, but use TCP.
> UDP/Samba, Win2K->Linux box:
^^^
That would be a surprise.
> When NFS transfers are taking
> place, watching gkrellm, I see 64MB/s for a few seconds then it goes to 0
> as the disk (hda) continues to write for 3-4 seconds, this continues on
> and off.
It's instructive to watch the server's disk traffic on a graph with the
same timescale as the network traffic.
> I am using XFS filesystems on both Linux machines. The drives are 7200RPM
> Seagate HDDs with either 2MB or 8MB of cache.
With a single drive, your transfer rate is going to be disk limited
to probably 40-50 MB/s anyway.
> Are there any 'tweaks' or 'hacks' to make NFS behave more like Samba or
The 'async' export option. RTFM before you use it.
Greg.
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Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.
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