On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 02:06:44PM +0000, Steven Surdock wrote:
> Using an OBSD 7.4 VM on VMware as an NFS server on HOST02.   It is primarily 
> used to store VMWare VM backups from HOST01, so VMWare is the NFS client.  
> I'm seeing transfers of about 1.2 MB/s.  
> 
> SCP from HOST01 to OBSD VM (same filesystem) copies at 110 MB/s.  
> Iperf3 from a VM on HOST01 to OBSD on HOST02 gives me 900+ mbps.  
> OBSD is a stock install running -stable.
> NFS is using v3 (according to VMWare) and using TCP
> During the NFS transfer the RECV-Q on the OBSD interface runs either 64000+ 
> or 0.
> I tried both em and vmx interface types.
> 
> /etc/rc.conf.local:
> mountd_flags=""                 # for normal use: ""
> nfsd_flags="-tun 4"     # Crank the 4 for a busy NFS fileserver
> ntpd_flags=""           # enabled during install
> portmap_flags=""        # for normal use: ""
> 
> Any clues on where to look to (greatly) improve NFS performance would be 
> appreciated.

Increasing write size, read size and the read-ahead count on the client has 
helped me.

E.g., on the client's fstab:

  10.17.18.10:/shared/stuff  /nfs/stuff  nfs  
rw,nodev,nosuid,intr,tcp,bg,noatime,-a=4,-r=32768,-w=32768 0 0

Cheers
Zé

> 
> -Steve S.
> 

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