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