[PLUG] NFS write performance?

[Galen Seitz]

Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:

> >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> writes:
> 
> Russell> The server is running a 2.6.0-test11 kernel, the clients are
> Russell> mixed 2.4.2x and 2.6.0-test11.
> 
> Paul> Can you repeat the test with the server booted into a recent 2.4
> Paul> kernel? 
> 
> Just tried 2.4.23 on the server, no significant difference.  vmstat 1
> still shows 300-400 blocks/second during writes over NFS.  
> 
> 

Just back from vacation, so I may have missed relevant parts of the thread,
but here goes anyway.

Are you using random data?  Is ssh configured to do compression?  I think
that ssh could be significantly faster if the data is compressable.

galen