Eugene Vilensky wrote: >> 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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > One server is a single drive and a second server has two 300gb velociraptors mirrored on a Dell Perc 5/i. Either way I should be getting higher speeds. I'm getting about over 100MB/s when testing /dev/sda3 with hdparm. Is there a test I can do to eliminate the disks as a bottleneck? Maybe set something up in RAM? Russ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090818/66b6ebb7/attachment-0005.html>