Redhat NFS resource

[Ryan Golhar]

I've got about 20 clients mounting home directories from 1 server,  I 
haven't seen much performance degradation at all.


Marti, Rob wrote:
> I don't see a massive resource hog from NFS, but I don't use it for lots of clients - I've got ~1.5TB NFS shared for 3 clients to use, and the hosting box isn't even fazed.  (Of course, it's an 8 core 16gb box...)  There are processes running, but it doesn't seem like they take much time.
> 
> Rob Marti
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> I am currently running Redhat version 4 emt64 on a number of machines and I
> am thinking off making one of the machines a NFS server, hooking it up to
> the storage via a new fibre HBA, then sharing the storage out via NFS to
> all the other Redhat machines. The question I have is does running NFS on
> the Redhat machine cause performance issues, i.e. more processes running,
> more memory etc. The reason for the question is so I can pick the correct
> machine to use. Also if anyone has any advice/documents or links on setting
> this up it would be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew
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