Hi Olivier,

Have you tried to use NFSv3 instead of NFSv4 to see if the performance
problem is solved?

Edit the /etc/default/nfs file, set NFS_SERVER_VERSMAX=3, and then, restart
the nfs/server service?

Regards,

Javi

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:22 AM, <gerald.eggenberger at sunwave.ch> wrote:

> Hi Olivier
>
> I know that there are some NFS-Problems:
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=433708
>
> The same Problem exists with Solaris 10/09.
>
> It works, but performance is poor. If you copy a lot of little files it's
> even worse. Therefore i think the problem has to do with File-Attribute
> settings and not with network-performance. Copy less big files an the
> performance should be 'ok'.
>
> As workaround ZIP all files before copy and extract it on the target
> system.
>
> Cheers G?rald
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Zitat von Mauras Olivier <oliver.mauras at gmail.com>:
>
>
>  Hi there,
>>
>> When i say bad, this is really bad... I'm sharing a dataset trough zfs
>> sharenfs. I connected a MacOSX client, and tested reads and writes.
>> Performances are far below what i'd expect from my gigabit network...
>> Every
>> writes and deletion takes ages to complete...
>>
>> To isolate the problem i fired up a script that creates 10000 100k files
>> and
>> delete them. Running this locally gives 0.400s for deletion and 24s for
>> total time - creation + deletion.
>> I actually locally mounted the NFS to see if this could come from OSX...
>> And
>> this is bad, the same script takes 8minutes over NFS :( - a bit worse from
>> OSX client
>>
>> I also share another dataset from the same pool trough SMB and it's
>> smoothly
>> running at ~48MB/s
>> I'm open to every idea. I already did a lot of inspection and nothing
>> fancy
>> got reported with snoop or nfsstat.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>>
>
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