[CentOS] nfs slow?

[John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Russell Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 7:03 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] nfs slow?
> 
> > Well, you got what you asked for.  There's lots of info on the
> > centos.org web site, including info about the standard vs. plus
> > repositories.  You need to make an informed decision there, which it
> > looks like you're moving towards, so keep going.
> >
> 
> Interestingly, as a project for work I've been benchmarking different
> kernels against our configuration, using iozone.  The latest
> redhat/centos 5.3 kernel against stock 2.6.27.8 (as close to the
> centos config as is feasible.)
> 
> I have some pretty graphs, but the long and short of it is, while the
> read times are comparable, the write times for the stock kernel.org
> kernel are over twice as fast.  I mean it's pretty much blowing the
> RHEL/CentOS kernel out of the water.

Hi Russel, Are you Bonding the two Broad Com NICs? Can you give us an idea
speed wise of the performance for NFS? OT, are you doing any Samba testing?

JohnStanley