[3594] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Recommendations for NFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Jul 8 05:26:17 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: dduecker@zephyr.water.ca.gov
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:28:15 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9607080121.373D10@engr_1.water.ca.gov> from "dduecker@top-flite.water.ca.gov" at Jul 7, 96 06:21:55 pm
> I'm about to set up a series of nfs servers. I experimented
> with 1.3.90, 1.3.99, and 2.0 and the results were ghastly
> -- they were all *slow*! I went back to 1.2.8 and I'm
> quite happy with its performance as a server.
The NFS performance for the client has improved massively. The
server side performance has also improved except for one specific case
which is lots of random very small accesses, where the page cache is a small
lose. Using a 4K block size generally gets good results.
Alan
