> Things are working, but seem pretty slow. I'm getting about 10mb/sec. > I was wondering where the bottleneck could be? Is there a way to > optimize the NFS service for better throughput? > > I am accessing over 127.0.0.1 > Are the server and client coming from the same back-end spindles (I realize this is localhost)? How many spindles are involved? If you are reading/writing to the same disk(s) expect seeking to eat up the vast majority of potential throughput unless you have a total pool of sufficient IOPS.