Re: nfs server performance (netbsd-5)

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:00:42AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> TCP mounts with 8 k r/w sizes.
> 
> 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.

        David

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