Cedric Blancher [cedric.blancher@xxxxxxxxx] wrote: > On 23 April 2014 22:24, Malahal Naineni <malahal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Cedric Blancher [cedric.blancher@xxxxxxxxx] wrote: > >> Are there any options to improve the Linux NFSv4 performance over a > >> high latency connection? > >> > >> We currently use Solaris/Illumos as NFSv4 server and client over a > >> cross continental Internet connection. Latency is terrible (~220ms) > >> but the counter this by running work in parallel so the latency is > >> mostly mitigated. > >> > >> We now wish to migrate (short: Away from Oracle because support is > >> basically unbearable) to Linux (tested SuSE 13.1 and current Fedora) > >> and build times are 17 times (!!!) SLOWER than on Solaris/Illumos. > >> > >> Are there any tunables besides actimeo=300? > > > > rsize and wsize may help! You need to figure out if the read is the > > issue or the write before you dig further. > > I already tried to tune rsize/wsize, making them both smaller or the > maximum of 1048576 bytes, with no effect. > > One possible theory is that maybe something in Linux doesn't allow > multiple requests to be issued in parallel and waits for each request > to be completed before issuing the next one? Linux NFS client can issue I/Os in parallel. Should be limited by number of RPC slots though. Regards, Malahal. -- 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
