Re: NFS and SAMBA on RELENG_5 vs RELENG_4

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 01/23/05

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    Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:28:49 -0600
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>

    Robert Watson wrote:
    > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
    >
    >
    >>I can tell you this - you must increase the number of nfsd threads to a
    >>high number, if you plan on really hammering the machine with nfs and
    >>lots of clients. I recompiled the nfsd binary with it tweaked to allow
    >>256 threads, and that still isn't quite enough. You need something on
    >>the order of: 1 per active machine using nfs * 1.10. The hard part is
    >>finding out how many active machines you have. I usually start with
    >>about 20% of my total machines mounted to the server, and then watch the
    >>nfsd threads cpu time. If the lowest thread is using more than about
    >>3-4% of the time of the 10-15th top nfsd process, then you need to bump
    >>up the number. That may be confusing..
    >
    >
    > Hmm. So it sounds like it would make sense for us to do that in the src
    > tree. Is it sufficient to simply redefine MAXNFSDCNT from 20 to 256, or
    > do other things also need tweaking?

    I think it would make sense. Yes, that is the only knob to turn..

    Eric 

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