Re: nfs server performance (netbsd-5)

[Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 06:40:48PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:00:42AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > Now the NFS server performs better - CPU load is lower and the system no
> > longer coughs when nfsd is running.  However, I'm still getting lots of
> > RPC errors - something like 100 or 200 per second during a build on a NetBSD
> > client machine.
> 
> Try reducing the number of nfs server processes to 1.
> If the nfs server ever gets disk limited, the disk write algorithms
> can cause one of the server threads to get starved leading to timeouts.

Thanks, I'll try this.  All the time, I have been _increasing_ the number of
NFS processes (threads)...  (having only one sounds so.. unsafe ;)

  -jm