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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Helmut Jarausch |
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<jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> on one of our students' lab the home directories of the students are mounted |
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> via NFS. |
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> Our main application (www.codelite.org) seems to write a lot of small chunks |
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> to files in the |
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> students' home directories. |
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> Thus, just finishing Codelite takes 100 seconds while the same version on a |
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> pure local machine |
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> takes about 2 seconds for that. |
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> |
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> A simple test |
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> dd bs=80 count=10000 if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/Test |
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> shows only 80 Kb/sec (speed of a floppy drive). |
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> The machine was idle and connected to a dedicated, nearly idle server by a |
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> network |
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> of 1Gb/sec. |
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> |
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> Does anybody have some hints on how to speed up such an NFS3 setup? |
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There's all kinds of NFS tuning options. I'm not an expert, so I can't |
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really make any strong suggestions, but my first stop would probably |
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be grabbing the ebook version of |
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http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565925106.do and giving that a |
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good couple hours' deep skim. |
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:wq |
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