> > I have two linux systems on a 10BT LAN. The /home tree of one system is
> > mounted from the other, as is the /var/spool/mail directory, and various
> > other parts of the system.
> >
> > This is *SLOW*, Very slow -- FTP'ing between the systems 400k+/second is
> > average, over NFS, that figure drops below 50. I've been told that NFS is
> > by design slow and this is what I'm going to have to live with.
>
> Have you increased the size of the packets that NFS uses to transfer
> information between the hosts? On the client side, use the mount
> options "rsize" and "wsize" to increase the read and write packets,
> respectively. The Linux default is 1024 bytes which is too small for
> performance reasons. For example, Sun systems use 8192 bytes for rsize
> and wsize. To be safe, just use 8192.
I've tried sizes from 1024 -- 300000 ... Only now did I try 8192. Things
are VASTLY improved.
Much thanks. :)
- Graeme.
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Graeme Tippett - greenie@100acre.com - http://www.100acre.com/~greenie
"According to the obituary notices, a mean and unimportant person
never dies"
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