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? What kind of test are you running? How many clients vs servers? If you have 1 client and 1 server you won't use more than 1 NIC with bonding. Because bonding operates based on source/destination MAC or IP addresses (some bonding can take into account layer 4 ports as well). I just ran a really simple test on my home network between two debian systems on a gigE network(no bonding). No special tuning at all. Just a 'dd' write test. To local disk I got 198MB/sec, to the NFS volume (same controller, disks, OS, kernel on the other end) I got 29MB/sec(232Mbit). This was for 410MB of data, on oldish systems(new HDDs, 3 year old raid cards and 3year old systems). Running an iperf test to test raw network throughput I get 940Mbit. (Intel E1000 on each end, with a Linksys in between) But as another poster noted, NFS under linux isn't that great. My company uses a BlueArc for their NFS needs, it works well (fastest NAS in the world I think). Though the model we have is pretty old and is going end of life soon. I certainly would never use Linux for any *really* serious NFS use. Casual stuff, fine.. nate