NFS performance..
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Nov 29 01:58:55 UTC 2003
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 08:18, WipeOut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking at setting up a NAS trype server to provide a shared
> storage facility to my other servers..
>
> So to connect from the Servers to the NAS box I will be using either NFS
> or Samba and seeing that it will be a linux only environment I figured
> NFS would probably be the way to go..
>
> but..
>
> From the tests I have done this morning it would seem that Samba is far
> faster (3x) than NFS in terms of write speed and about the same in terms
> of read speed.. I know that Samba probably comes fairly well optimised
> out of the box but I think NFS could probably do with some tuning..
>
> I have tried mounting with rsize=8192,wsize=8192 but this didn't make
> any difference..
>
> Anyone got any ideas or links to good NFS tuning sites.. (the how-to on
> nfs.sourceforge.net didn't help me much)
>
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I was hoping to see some interest in this thread as I am about to do the
same thing - obvious the permissions on the NAS aren't the same if you
use Samba
Craig
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