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Stefan Onken wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I am running a x86 gentoo box as a nfs server. As a filesystem I am |
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> using XFS on a 3ware Raid system. |
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> The 3ware systems seems to be quite quick, although access via NFS |
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> seems to be very slow. Any ideas how I can improve speed ? I was |
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> expected a speed only limited by the 100 Mbit network. Now, the |
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> speed is so slow, that reading/writing at the same time is nearly |
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> impossible. |
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> Any ideas how to improve the speed ? |
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> hdparm on the gentoo box machine: |
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> backup3 ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb |
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> /dev/sdb: |
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> Timing cached reads: 4108 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2054.34 MB/sec |
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> Timing buffered disk reads: 232 MB in 3.01 seconds = 77.09 MB/sec |
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> |
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> /etc/exports on the gentoo box: |
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> /mnt/backup/ 192.168.1.0/24 |
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> (rw,no_root_squash,async,no_subtree_check) |
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> I am not even able to run a bonnie benchmark on the client. It seems |
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> to hang while doing rewriting. Running bonnie on the nfs server |
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> gives a fast result. |
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> /etc/fstab on the client: |
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> 192.168.1.3:/mnt/backup /mnt/backup nfs |
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> rw,users,async 0 |
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> http://pastebin.com/m72ae9d47 |
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> Any ideas ? |
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I turned on tcp (vs. udp for nfs and I'm much happier. I have a mixed |
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cat5 (100Mbps) vs 802.11G(54Mbps) network. YMMV but it's worth a shot. |
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I'm streaming mp3s over it, my home directories and mythtv. |
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HTH |
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-eric |
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