Roy Wright wrote:
On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Hal Martin wrote:
Hello all,
Sorry if it seems like this is a repeat question, but I've gone through
my Gentoo list for the past 2 years and none of the answers provided for
previous threads on this seem to work for me. Here's the situation:
/etc/exports:
/mnt/daigo 192.168.0.31(rw,insecure)
A couple of years ago, I experienced the same type of issue where nfs
performance was a lot lower than smb. It turned out a switch I was
using was bad. I suggest first minimizing your testing network, and
then swapping components such as switches. Others on the LinuxMCE
list had issues with specific network drivers.
I current use nfs between kubuntu, gentoo, and macbook (10.5.8 2GHz
Core 2 Duo) systems. I have media volumes on the kubuntu, and both
gentoo systems. I use autofs on each system for mounting the nfs
volumes. Here's an example of the settings:
/etc/exports:
/var/media
192.168.80.0/24(async,no_subtree_check,rw,no_root_squash,insecure)
That's fixed it! Thanks! I'm now getting ~50MB/s over NFS. System load
is still up around 6, but I can live with that.
/etc/auto.media:
royw-gentoo-rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,timeo=30,rw
royw-gentoo:/var/media
dad-kubuntu-rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,timeo=30,rw
dad-kubuntu:/var/media
My macbook Connect to Server:
nfs://royw-gentoo/var/media/public/data
nfs://dad-kubuntu/var/media/public/data
The no_subtree_check and the no_root_squash parameters are left over
from when I used LinuxMCE.
The insecure parameter is required to allow the macbook to connect.
The rsize and wsize seem to work fine for streaming dvd iso images to
my gentoo XBMC system over gigabit ethernet. I've also streamed a few
movies to my macbook and did not notice any performance issues.
Streaming movies from my gentoo box to my macbook doesn't present any
performance issues as the data rate is usually fairly low.
My media drives are WDC WD10EACS (1TB).
How are you testing performance? With test procedure I can try to
duplicate.
Large files. I'm transferring 4-7GB .mkv files, but I believe any large
file would do.
-Hal
HTH,
Roy
