Re: 30 time speed difference between using NFS and without using NFS

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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:27:35PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:23 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:39:54PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> >> Please see below for the answers of you questions.
> >>
> >> $ find . -type d|wc
> >>    1491    1491   53372
> >>
> >> Search the directory as a local directory
> >>
> >> $ time find . -name 'data.frame' -type d
> >> ./library/base/data.frame
> >> ./library/base/data.frame/data.frame
> >>
> >> real  0m0.044s
> >> user  0m0.012s
> >> sys   0m0.028s
> >>
> >> Search the directory as a NFS directory. The same command runs three 3
> >> times in series.
> >>
> >> $ time find . -name 'data.frame' -type d
> >> ./library/base/data.frame
> >> ./library/base/data.frame/data.frame
> >>
> >> real  0m2.205s
> >> user  0m0.040s
> >> sys   0m0.430s
> >> $ time find . -name 'data.frame' -type d
> >> ./library/base/data.frame
> >> ./library/base/data.frame/data.frame
> >>
> >> real  0m1.203s
> >> user  0m0.060s
> >> sys   0m0.120s
> >> $ time find . -name 'data.frame' -type d
> >> ./library/base/data.frame
> >> ./library/base/data.frame/data.frame
> >>
> >> real  0m1.227s
> >> user  0m0.040s
> >> sys   0m0.200s
> >>
> >> Ping the NFS server gives me ttl=64 time=0.156 ms.
> >
> > So if readding each of those directories required only a single round
> > trip, and if network round trip time were the dominating factor, the
> > whole thing would only take a second.  So there may be more rpc's (is
> > find also stat'ing every directory entry?), and/or you may be
> > bottlenecked by somethign else (e.g. seek time on the server).
> >
> > You might try using /proc/self/mounstats on the client to figure out
> > what rpc's are sent during the find and the average time they take.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't really know how to read /proc/self/mounstats

There's also a script in nfs-utils, under
tools/nfs-iostat/nfs-iostat.py, that may help.

> But here is the corresponding record in it on the client machine
> before and after I run the find command once. Are you able to tell
> what is wrong?

There's not necessarily even anything wrong.  NFS and local access tend
to perform differently, so if the difference here is a problem then you
need to figure out why and then decide what to do about it.

--b.

> 
> #######before
> 
> device xx.xx.x.xx:/pearson/data mounted on /pearson/data with fstype
> nfs statvers=1.0
> 	opts:	rw,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,acregmin=3,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.16.4.20,mountvers=3,mountport=0,mountproto=tcp
> 	age:	167462
> 	caps:	caps=0x3fcf,wtmult=4096,dtsize=4096,bsize=0,namlen=255
> 	sec:	flavor=1,pseudoflavor=1
> 	events:	97266 2937027 45 379 43366 10794 3030879 707 3 239 553 71267
> 53078 256 331 248 0 3941 0 1 209 0 0 0 0
> 	bytes:	3620495167 2489192 0 0 29243366 1919994 7293 553
> 	RPC iostats version: 1.0  p/v: 100003/3 (nfs)
> 	xprt:	tcp 870 1 6 0 11 144892 144890 2 323286 727
> 	per-op statistics
> 	        NULL: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 	     GETATTR: 97268 97268 0 17511024 10894016 300 27490 34980
> 	     SETATTR: 428 428 0 92916 61632 0 1000 1030
> 	      LOOKUP: 11128 11128 0 2158020 1509208 30 5010 5640
> 	      ACCESS: 28926 28926 0 5210656 3471000 110 8000 9950
> .........
> 
> 
> #######After
> 
> device xx.xx.x.xx:/pearson/data mounted on /pearson/data with fstype
> nfs statvers=1.0
> 	opts:	rw,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,acregmin=3,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=10.16.4.20,mountvers=3,mountport=0,mountproto=tcp
> 	age:	167478
> 	caps:	caps=0x3fcf,wtmult=4096,dtsize=4096,bsize=0,namlen=255
> 	sec:	flavor=1,pseudoflavor=1
> 	events:	101739 2943313 45 379 46349 10794 3043133 707 3 239 553 71267
> 56060 256 331 248 0 3941 0 1 209 0 0 0 0
> 	bytes:	3620495167 2489192 0 0 29243366 1919994 7293 553
> 	RPC iostats version: 1.0  p/v: 100003/3 (nfs)
> 	xprt:	tcp 870 1 6 0 3 150855 150853 2 341175 727
> 	per-op statistics
> 	        NULL: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 	     GETATTR: 101741 101741 0 18298272 11394992 310 28740 36660
> 	     SETATTR: 428 428 0 92916 61632 0 1000 1030
> 	      LOOKUP: 11128 11128 0 2158020 1509208 30 5010 5640
> 	      ACCESS: 30416 30416 0 5478856 3649800 110 8290 10360
> .......
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Peng
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