From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
To: Jim Callahan <callahan@temerity.us>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Best A->B large file copy performance
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:43:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B9C84B.2010506@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B9780B.2020609@temerity.us>
Jim Callahan wrote:
> I'm trying to determine the most optimal way to have a single NFS
> client copy large numbers (100-1000) of fairly large (1-50M) files [...]
I'd like to propose a new rule of thumb: to be considered "fairly
large", a file should be larger than the capacity of a USB key which
could be comfortably swallowed.
> [...] Since the number of permutations of these three settings are
> large I was hoping that I might get some advise from this list about a
> range of values we should be investigating and any unpleasant
> interactions between these levels of settings we should be aware of to
> narrow our search. Also, if there are other major factors outside
> those listed I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
Try
http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/slides/130-lca2008-nfs-tuning-secrets-d7.odp
--
Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
the brightly coloured sporks of revolution.
I don't speak for SGI.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-13 2:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-12 21:00 Best A->B large file copy performance Jim Callahan
2009-03-13 2:43 ` Greg Banks [this message]
2009-03-13 19:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-13 21:40 ` Jim Callahan
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