Re: [Nbd] Performance tuning of nbd !?

["Dirk von Suchodoletz" <dirk.von.suchodoletz@...65...>]

Hi!

> Yes. I think you should be able to use about 70% of the bandwidth (I can get
> about 32Mb/s out of 45Mb/s (T3) with 100ms latency). You might need to
> increase your TCP window size and/or change the I/O scheduler you're using
> for NBD. Switch to "deadline" scheduler if you're not using that one already.
> And set the TCP window size, as follows:

Thanks for the tips - never changed something there before:) I set the
scheduler to deadline ...
 
> In order to raise the window size to about 1 MB, the following sysctl
> settings should be changed:
> 
> net.core.rmem_max = 500000
> net.core.wmem_max = 500000

... increase TCP max buffer size (given in Byte?)

> net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 1333000
> net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 1333000

What does all these values mean exactly?

> The window size should be a little above your network "pipe size":
> 
> pipe = bandwidth * latency

Changed the values to the examples given ... but no change. Sticking to 130kB/s
at the moment.

Any further ideas!? Dirk