Subject: Re: poor NFS/amd performance
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/18/2003 12:29:06
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:55:06 +0200, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>> to 1024.  I don't see anything in amd.conf(5) or amd(8) to suggest how
>
>That's probably it. The 3c509 has small (2k) buffers, the 32k nfs
>packets will easily overflow it.
>
>> that might be done.
>
>It's probably rsize=xxx,wsize=xxx , from memory

Ah yes will try that...

>> Perhaps using TCP mounts would help?
>
>It probably would.

Actually, we are already using TCP.

Also, while we're closing this 300k file, the whole machine feels
sluggish, if I switch to another window in screen - it doesn't update
until the above I/O completes.

Thanks
--sjg