Hi,
we are facing below 2 performance issue on NFS:

1. Read speed is low for small files
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[ Log on NFS Client]

$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ dd if=200KBfile.txt of=/dev/null
400+0 records in
400+0 records out
204800 bytes (200.0KB) copied, 0.027074 seconds, 7.2MB/s


Read speed for 200KB file is 7.2 MB


[ Log on NFS Client]

$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ dd if=100MBfile.txt of=/dev/null
204800+0 records in
204800+0 records out
104857600 bytes (100.0MB) copied, 9.351221 seconds, 10.7MB/s

Read speed for 100MB file is 10.7 MB

As you see read speed for 200KB file is only 7.2MB/sec while it is
10.7 MB/sec when we read 100MB file.
Why there is so much difference in read performance ?
Is there any way to achieve high read speed for small files ?


2. Read/stat for a directory tree is slow on NFS than local
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we have lot of *.jpg files in a directory. If we try to "stat" and
"read" from this directory,
 performannce is very slow on NFS Client compared to Local(NFS server)
"stat" and "read"


[ Log on Local (NFS Server) ]

$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ ./stat_read_files_test ./lot_of_jpg_files/
 Time Taken : 9288 msec


[ Log on NFS Client]

$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ ./stat_read_files_test ./lot_of_jpg_files/
 Time Taken : 19966 msec

As you see, on NFS client time taken is almost *double* than that of
local(NFS server)
We are using UDP with rsize,wsize=32k on 100MB ethernet link.
I am attaching read/stat testcase.

Is there any way to improve this performance ?


Thanks,
Vivek