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Poor Solaris 2.6 NFS client performance

Poor Solaris 2.6 NFS client performance

Post by Jeff Katch » Thu, 24 Dec 1998 04:00:00



I've been seeing very poor NFS client performance (both NFS3 and NFS2) under
Solaris 2.6.  I have two identical Ultra 1/170s, each connected to an NFS
server over switched 100MBit Ethernet.  One machine is a vanilla 2.5.1
installation (right off the CD) and the other is 2.6.  Certain performance
metrics like file creation and especially deletion are an order of magnitude
slower under 2.6.  Even after patching my 2.6 system to current levels, the
performance is just as bad (if not worse).  A bit of kernel tuning (using
ncsize, nra, and max_threads) doubles the 2.6 performance, but it's still
much worse than 2.5.1.

I've rummaged through the Sun Support database and there's quite a few
references to this poor performance.  (All bugs were closed as "not a bug".)

Thanks for any input,

Jeffrey Katcher

 
 
 
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