Re: [Nolug] Slow NFS on GigE

Really? What's getting me is CIFS is just fine over the same card. The
problem just seems to be with NFS. That said, there may be some weird
interaction with the driver and NFS. Who knows.

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Chris Jones wrote:
> Check the windows drivers.  Find out the make of the gigabit chip, and get the latest drivers from that company's web site.  (like broadcom)  the gigabit drivers included with windows are often unusable, i've seen this same thing before.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Dustin Puryear" <dustin@puryear-it.com>
> To: general@brlug.net; nolug@nolug.org
> Sent: 4/4/08 2:08 PM
> Subject: [Nolug] Slow NFS on GigE
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has had any performance issues with NFS over GigE? 
>   We are bringing up a pretty standard VMware scenario: VMware servers 
> are connected to GigE with bonded pair and our Dell NF500 NAS is running 
> RAID10. Fast and easy. Only..
> 
> The NFS performance sucks. I need to get some firm numbers, but it looks 
> like we can't get NFS to perform better than if it were on a Fast 
> Ethernet network. That said, if we change over to mounting our VM 
> filesystem using CIFS we can scream at pretty much wire speeds. (By the 
> way, if using CentOS 5.0 and mount.cifs, upgrade to 5.1 because the 5.0 
> kernel will panic sometimes with a mounted CIFS in high usage.)
> 
> Here's out setup:
> 
> 2 Dell 1850's CentOS 5.1 with Intel GigE cards (2 cards each, 2 ports 
> per card, 1 card = bonded pair = VMware Network, 1 card = 1 port = Admin 
> Network)
> 
> 1 Dell NF500 running Windows Storage Server 2003 with 4 disk RAID10 and GigE
> 
> Regardless of whether we use bonding/LAG (Dell PowerConnect 5000+) or 
> just simple GigE over one port, our NFS sucks it. CIFS screams though 
> and pretty much saturates the connection.
> 
> Right now I've tested Linux <--> NAS. When I have time I'll try Linux to 
> Linux.
> 
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