Re: NFS for millions of files

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NFSv3, and I will try various other rsize/wsize.

Apologies for the accidental double post...

We are utilizing XFS with a separate logdev, dedicated raid 1 15k sas drives,
and are already utilizing write caching.  I guess I can try playing with a few
other things.  Thanks for all the pointers.

Jason

It is said that Peter Chacko, at Thu, 03 Sep 2009, wrote:

> Is this NFSv4 ?  rsize and wsize > MTU size will cause fragmentation
> and performance issues...Try making it around 4k .....You used  1<<15
> fir your example. if you don't do writes....then this shouldn't
> matter...and of course NFS is  Nfs is not For Scalability.. You cannot
> get the same performance on NFS as you would get for localFS...May be
> you can try 10g....still there is TCP/UDP/IP stack overhead.....
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Aaron Wiebe<epiphani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Have a look at these two kernel params - I'd recommend bumping them up
> > to 128 (they're 16 by default).
> >
> > sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries
> > sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries
> >
> > Keep in mind that this could also be a serialization issue. ?If you've
> > got a 3ms latency, and you're performing all of your opens serially,
> > you aren't going to get much faster. ?If you do the work in parallel
> > you'll likely get substantially better numbers.
> >
> > -Aaron
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jason Legate<linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi, I'm trying to setup a server that we can create millions of files on over
> >> NFS. ?When I run our creation benchmark locally ?I can get around 3000 files/
> >> second in the configuration we're using now, but only around 300/second over
> >> NFS. ?It's mounted as this:
> >>
> >> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,hard,bg,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,
> >> nfsvers=3,timeo=600,actimeo=600,nocto
> >>
> >> When I mount the same FS over localhost instead of across the lan, it performs
> >> about full speed (the 3000/sec). ?Anyone have any ideas what I might tweak or
> >> look at?
> >>
> >> We're going to be testing various XFS/LVM configs to get the best performance,
> >> but right out the gate, NFS having a 10:1 penalty of performance doesn't bode
> >> well.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Jason
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> 
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