NFS attr cache performance

[Geoff Mohler]

I will do that, thanks!

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Eric Anderson wrote:

> On 10/29/06 22:31, Geoff Mohler wrote:
>> Im looking for deep hacks into what I could do to make the 6.x NFS client 
>> hold a larger (or much larger) file/directory attribute cache.
>> 
>> In very large make "everything" environments with Fbsd, we are about 1/3rd 
>> the speed of local disk coming from a very large Netapp box.
>> 
>> The same make from a heavily patched/modified Linux NFS client is miles 
>> faster than local disk.
>> 
>> I have no insight to the Linux modifications, but looking at the nfsstats, 
>> attribute calls are the bulk of the traffic to the NFS mounted file system.
>> 
>> Any and all ideas are OK..maybe something simple I overlooked.
>> 
>> I need to reserve another build server early this week, and go over my 
>> options again on whats not been working, and get the list numbers as well.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> See Bruce Evans very recent work on this on freebsd-fs@ mailing list.
>
> Eric
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