Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-24 Thread Alex Still
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jun 22, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Alex Still wrote: > >> [...] >> >>>> On some servers this behavior returned despite rsize being set to 32k, >>>> I had to set it to 8k to get reasonnable throughput.

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-23 Thread Alex Still
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 17:44 +0200, Alex Still wrote: > >> >> Clients are blade servers. The blade chassis have integrated cisco >> switches, which are plugged to a cisco 6509. The NFS server is on >> another site

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Still
[...] >> On some servers this behavior returned despite rsize being set to 32k, >> I had to set it to 8k to get reasonnable throughput. So there's >> definitly something fishy going on. This has been reported on over 20 >> machines, so I don't think it's faulty hardware we're seeing. >> >> Any tho

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-22 Thread Alex Still
[..] >> /proc/mounts shows rsize has been negotiated to 1mB > > Have you tested the same thing with a Linux NFS server? > > The CentOS 5.x kernel has a maximum server [rw]size of 32Kb, so you > would need to use something with a more recent kernel to get [rw]sizes > to be 1Mb. > Haven't tried wit

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance - default rsize

2010-06-21 Thread Alex Still
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Nataraj wrote: [...] > Well, it's been a long time since I've done troubleshooting on large NFS > networks, but here's an idea... > > Are you seeing any kind of packet loss/retransmissions?  Take a look at > netstat  -s.  When I last did this work it was with NFS