[CentOS] slow NFS speed

Wed Jul 30 03:37:16 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Mag Gam wrote:
> We upgraded from a 10/100Mbs to a 2 100/1000 bonding. We notice the
> speeds of NFS to be around 70-80Mb/sec. Which is slow, especially with
> bonding. I was wondering if we need to tune anything special with the
> Network and NFS. Does anyone have any experience with this?
>   

my general experience is that Linux has a rather poor implementation of 
NFS server.   Solaris works much better as a NFS server.