NFS tuning on FreeBSD

Michael K. Smith - Adhost mksmith at adhost.com
Fri Jun 1 20:13:49 UTC 2007


Hello:
> Devin Heckman wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > Does anyone have any experience tuning NFS mounts on FreeBSD
> machines?
> >
> 
[snip]

Here's what we use for mount options in /etc/fstab, basically culled
from the O'Reilly NFS book.

rw,tcp,intr,noatime,nfsv3,-w=65536,-r=65536

You have to be careful with noatime if you have applications that use
atime, but we didn't so that cuts down on the number of reads
significantly.

Regards,

Mike


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