Bug 99358 – NFS is very slow on RedHat9

Bug 99358 - NFS is very slow on RedHat9

Summary:	NFS is very slow on RedHat9

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	nfs-server (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Steve Dickson
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Reported:	2003-07-17 19:53 EDT by Hoang Le
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:55 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-08-11 07:41:13 EDT
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Description Hoang Le 2003-07-17 19:53:11 EDT

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Description of problem:
NFS is very slow with SCSI drives when writing small files.  I have a system 
with both IDE and SCSI, if testing locally, SCSI is faster than IDE drive.  But 
NFS on SCSI drive is 200%-300% slower than NFS share on IDE drive.  I have 
tested on other systems with RedHat8, and experience the same problem, NFS is 
much slower on SCSI especially when writing lots of small files an the shared 
directories.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create NFS share on SCSI drive
2.Mount the share on a system
3.running copy directory which contains many small files to the NFS shared 
directories.
4.Do the same for an IDE drive to compare the result.

    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Robert Eden 2004-01-28 12:24:59 EST

I see a similar problem with files of any size..

I created a 100MB file on a RH 7.1 system and RH 9.0 systems.

When I mount the file systems on a Solaris 8 system, the 7.1 copies
the file in about 15 seconds, while 9.0 is still going after 5 minutes.

/etc/exports entries are identical.
solaris mount commands are identical.

Comment 2 Steve Dickson 2004-08-11 07:41:13 EDT

We think this was do to some major VM issues. Please upgrade
to a later to kernel.

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