chucklever@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/27/2008 07:14:38 PM: > At a guess, it's because the client is now caching your file data? Today it is working fine, so maybe something was wrong earlier. However, nfs-iostat shows very low BW: op/s rpc bklog 42.60 0.00 read: ops/s Kb/s Kb/op retrans avg RTT (ms) avg exe (ms) 42.542 2734.324 64.273 0 (0.0%) 18.480 18.518 write: ops/s Kb/s Kb/op retrans avg RTT (ms) avg exe (ms) 0.000 0.000 0.000 0 (0.0%) 0.000 0.000 A cat of the file (after fresh mount of /local and /nfs) on the NFS mountpoint to /dev/null gives around 29.4 MB/s (vs 39.1 MB/s on /local). > Can you post a copy of your mount command line, and your > /proc/self/mountstats file after a test run (but before you unmount)? mount: mount -o rw,bg,hard,nointr,proto=tcp,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,timeo=600,noatime localhost:/local /nfs mountstats file: device rootfs mounted on / with fstype rootfs device /dev/root mounted on / with fstype ext3 device /dev mounted on /dev with fstype tmpfs device /proc mounted on /proc with fstype proc device /sys mounted on /sys with fstype sysfs device none mounted on /selinux with fstype selinuxfs device /proc/bus/usb mounted on /proc/bus/usb with fstype usbfs device devpts mounted on /dev/pts with fstype devpts device tmpfs mounted on /dev/shm with fstype tmpfs device none mounted on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc with fstype binfmt_misc device sunrpc mounted on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs with fstype rpc_pipefs device /etc/auto.misc mounted on /misc with fstype autofs device -hosts mounted on /net with fstype autofs device nfsd mounted on /proc/fs/nfsd with fstype nfsd device /dev/sda6 mounted on /local with fstype ext3 device localhost:/local mounted on /nfs with fstype nfs statvers=1.0 opts: rw,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,acregmin=3,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys age: 79 caps: caps=0x9,wtmult=4096,dtsize=4096,bsize=0,namelen=255 sec: flavor=1,pseudoflavor=1 events: 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 609 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 bytes: 595722240 0 0 0 596639744 0 145664 0 RPC iostats version: 1.0 p/v: 100003/3 (nfs) xprt: tcp 855 0 2 0 60 9117 9117 0 72672 0 per-op statistics NULL: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GETATTR: 2 2 0 264 224 0 0 0 SETATTR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LOOKUP: 3 3 0 448 684 0 1 1 ACCESS: 4 4 0 568 480 0 0 0 READLINK: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 READ: 9104 9104 0 1383808 597805056 15 168246 168587 WRITE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CREATE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MKDIR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SYMLINK: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MKNOD: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 REMOVE: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RMDIR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RENAME: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LINK: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 READDIR: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 READDIRPLUS: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FSSTAT: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FSINFO: 1 1 0 132 80 0 0 0 PATHCONF: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 COMMIT: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 And: [root@localhost nfs]# nfsstat -rc Client rpc stats: calls retrans authrefrsh 713710 19 0 Thanks, - KK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is being discontinued. Please subscribe to linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html