Re: KNFD stress testing..

Hans Eric =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sandstr=F6m (hes@xinit.se)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:26:28 +0100


Thomas Davis wrote:

> Well, I went and applied the lastest knfs (knfs-981022.tar.gz, from
> ftp.kernel.org) on a couple of machines, rebooted, and preceded to beat
> up on it. Good news is, it didn't fall down and go boom!
>

<snip>

> The only messages that knfs was generating was at mount time from the
> solaris box (complaining about the NFS v3 client stuff, I would guess)
>
> Anyone have ideas on how to speed it up any more? :-)

The answer is in the line above. Implement NFS v3. It has a lot of performance
related stuff in it. Like piggybacking nfs getattr.
So anyone, this is a wishlist for 2.3 development, go ahead an get RFC 1831.

Hans Eric

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