nfs scalability?

Fri Jun 25 16:40:25 PDT 2004

Some people are working on a distributed parallel nfs so
you could span the nfs server accross two machines.  Not sure
if it's working yet or not.
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Quoting "lazyevil at yahoo.com" <lazyevil at yahoo.com>:

> Hey y'all,
>
> So.. I'm running a Redhat system w/ a fibre connected DAS pushing out
> NFS to > 40 client machines right now.. and we're starting to feel
> the
> performance hits.  I know you've handled this before.. here's what
> I've
> looked at/thought of, I'd love to hear some more ideas..
>
> - nfs tuning: i've been using http://www.iozone.org to tweak
>     - nfsd thread count, rmem/wmem sizes, rsize/wsize, etc..
> - replacing nfs server w/ better hw
> - adding second nfs server connected to DAS, splitting mount points
> - switching to TCP - anyone tried this out yet?  on RH-WS3?
>
> I'm tired of writing cron jobs to fix the automounter, and deal with
> stale file handles.. its time to upgrade or find something else..
>
> Ciao,
>
> -steve
>