On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 13:25 -0600, Bryan Murdock wrote: > I working with a brand new Ubuntu 10.04 nfs server and some Ubuntu > 10.04 nfs clients. Copying a single large file on the client from the > local drive to the nfs mounted drive is pretty fast. I'm happy with > the speed. Copying many small files from the local drive to the nfs > mounted drive is super duper slow. I'm not happy with the speed at > all. I've been googling around for help on how to tune nfs to fix > this, but I'm not finding much. Has anyone had this problem before? > Any ideas on what could be causing this? The client mounts the nfs > drive with rw,nosuid,nodev,hard,intr,sloppy, and the nfs server > exports with rw,sync,no_subtree_check,root_squash. Pretty sure it's > not NFSv4.
If you're okay with living a little more dangerously, switching from sync to async should speed things up. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
