On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 07:22:59PM +1000, Charlie Allom wrote:
> Why would nfsd bog down a CPU when trying to write a large file
> (180MB)?
> 
> Smaller files 3-10MB will let the CPU stay around 40%, and the network
> jumps from 2.7MB/s to 1Mb/s to 500k -> 10k/s and then spike back to
> 2.xMB/s again.

Please give more details about your hardware.
Also, while writing please look at results from 'systat vm' (especially the
disk I/O section, as well as the interrupts) and top (for vm used by
data cache, and activity of the NFS servers and pagedaemon)

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