> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean Figarella
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:14 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: NFS v4
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Jean Figarella wrote:
> >
> >>>> Under real user load though it just fell on its arse very
> >>>> quickly and a quick fall back to v3 was implemented. Maybe the
> >>>> EL5 implementation behaves better?
> >>>
> >>> I use one of my CentOS 5 boxen for low-load fileserver with
> >>> NFS4. I've been noticing that although MP3s plays fine from
> >>> that box, it can take a minute or two to write a dozen
> >>> tags--something that should happen in the blink of an eye. I've
> >>> been wondering what the problem is. Maybe it's NFS4!
> >>>
> >>
> >> I've been experiencing 5 to 20 seconds freezes ever since
> I upgraded
> >> my nfs server. This serves about 30 people. Anytime
> someone writes a
> >> big file to their home directory, the freezes happen. You can
> >> experience the freezes when browsing the internet, I guess because
> >> firefox is constantly writing data (cache, cookies, etc...). Other
> >> apps freeze up too.
> >>
> >> Now the question on my side is: can I force centos4 for
> serve nfs3 as
> >> opposed to nfs4. If I am not mistaken this is dependent on
> the client?
> >>
> >> The reason Im asking is that if I can force the server to
> serve nfs3
> >> then the clients will default to nfs3 themselves. right?
> >
> > Are these mounted with the sync or async option? If it is
> sync, the
> > client waits for the physical flush to disk to happen on every
> > operation, something that is horribly slow and that you
> never do for
> > local disks except for transaction boundaries in databases
> and other
> > unusual situations.
> >
>
> At first the sync option was being used, and the freezes
> happened very
> frequently. About a month and a half ago I started using
> async, and now
> I get far fewer freezes, like maybe 3 in an 8hr span.
You can also couple the async with the anticipatory scheduler
so reads will get higher priority then writes which can help
readers during a page-cache flush.
-Ross
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