NFS small files

[Peter Hessler]

These files are sitting right next to each other on disk, I created them
at the same time: """for i in `jot 10000`; do dd if=/dev/random of=$i
bs=128 count=128; done""".  Then I timed the copy of that directory.

Does seek really cause an 11x performance penalty?

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:40:44 -0800
Peter Kieser <pfak at telus.net> wrote:

: Copying single files are always going to take longer, because the
drive 
: has to seek more thus latency is introduced.
: 
: --Peter
: 
: Peter Hessler wrote:
: 
: >I'm setting up an NFS server to be used for compiling, and it seems
that
: >while speeds are acceptable for large files, small files take much
: >longer than expected.
: >
: >Copying 10000 16K files (in a directory) takes 54seconds, while
copying
: >a 170M single file takes 5s.
: >
: >Are there any tricks for speeding up small file performance?  I'm
: >willing to give up large file performance.
: >
: >/etc/sysctl.conf:
: > vfs.vmiodirenable=1
: > kern.ipc.somaxconn=2048
: > kern.maxfiles=65536
: > net.isr.enable=1
: >
: >/boot/loader.conf:
: > kern.ipc.nmbclusters=32768
: >
: >Kernel Conf:
: > include GENERIC
: > ident NFS
: > options DEVICE_POLLING
: > options HZ=1000
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