Re: nfs is very slow

[Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <harsh@ee.byu.edu>]

Gregor Stößer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having some trouble with my nfs-server. Performance is very bad, but
> all ather protocols (ftp, http, scp) are quite fast. Using scp I can
> write around 7 MB per second on the nsf-disk, while with nfs it's just
> 300 kB. I checked the net, all switches and the ethernet cards, so I'm
> sure all the hardware is okay.
> I'm running woody(ia64) on a HP I2000 workstation. Everything worked
> fine until last week and I'm not able to find any failures. I exceeded
> the number of nfs servers in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server from 8 to 32.
> All rpc programms are running, everything seems fine but performance is
> rather horrible. Any hints?
> Regards
>
> Gregor
>
> P.S. please answer me directly as I'm not on the list
Have you installed the package called 'portmap'? This has helped me 
tremendously in the past. Also, there has been some recent talk on this 
list about some nfs related packages getting upgraded and the older 
packages being better than the current version (this may have been fixed 
already, I don't know for sure). You can find it in the archives for the 
last week or so.

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Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Electrical Engineering Sysop
Brigham Young University - 84602