I've found on discussion lists that some people also tested values near 80 or 100. I think I have CPU and RAM to start with a value of 50.
The rsize and wsize values are both 32768.

Thanks in advance,
Mariano.

Eric Anderson wrote:
Mariano Benedettini wrote:

Thanks for all the replies. It's not a HD problem.
On monday I'll increase the number of nfsd processes and the number of nfsiod on the client, setting both to 50,
I think that the nfs performance will be much better :-)


50 nfsiod's may be a bit overkill, but you should experiment to find out.

You should also increase the rsize and wsize parameters on the mount options for better efficiency.

Eric



Eric Anderson wrote:

Francisco Reyes wrote:

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, mariano benedettini wrote:

91.3% idle





CPU is not the problem. :-)


Mem: 1599M Active, 1704M Inact, 311M Wired, 189M Cache, 112M Buf, 14M Free
Swap: 2023M Total, 184K Used, 2023M Free





Swap is not the problem.


Do
vmstat 10

Watch the output.
In particular look at the first 3 columns.
 procs
 r b w
 1 1 0
 0 1 0
 1 1 0

The left most column is CPU, the second column is disk IO.

If you have a number in the "b" column and it never hits 0 you have an I/O problem. You HDs are not catching up.

If you are using NFS and the "b" colun is not high and hits 0 some/all the time then the bottleneck is either the nfs connection or the nfs server.

For example I have some servers that the "b" column would be between 20 and 60 for a while. I am currently working on removing some of the load of the machine. In my case more memory would help, but the computer vendor we bought the machine from has sent us the wrong memory 3 TIMES!!




Also, if it is an NFS server, one should check the cpu times on the nfsd processes. I've found that many times there aren't enough nfsd processes to take the load from many clients. Increasing the number (double it) often helps this. The max in 5.3 is 20, but you can easily change it and get around it.

Eric






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