[CentOS] slow NFS speed

Wed Jul 30 03:58:34 UTC 2008
Mark Belanger <mark_belanger at ltx.com>

John R Pierce wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't completely disagree with that but we have a number of
linux NFS servers running that are working really well - once we
tweaked the mount options.  We are using these:
-rw,bg,nosuid,timeo=50,retry=1

-Mark