Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:37:57 -0500 | | From | Tall cool one <> | | Subject | Re: NFS problem in 2.0.32 |
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ketil@infotek.no writes: > alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > > > Thats what I meant > > I'll make sure I run with 1K sizes then. I've tried both with 8K and 1K > with very similar results. > > > Processes shouldnt be crashing > > I violently and vehemently agree to that. :-) > > I managed to dd an 8Mb block of zeroes to the NFS volume, although I got > copious NFS not responding/ok messages. This took nearly half an hour, > which amounts to about 5K/sec - somewhat disappointing. (Hopefully, I > got the calculations right this time) With 1K blocks, I see a definite > improvement, down to about 7 minutes (15-20K/s), but still too slow. > > Keeping an eye on the file on the Linux server, I see it is being > written to in large blocks (64-200K at a time) at very long intervals. > Another peculiarity seems to be that it is real fast up to, say, 1.5 to > 2Mb, and then it bogs down, giving me the dreaded messages. > > There's also a long delay after dd has completed (output it's records > in/out message), if that is any clue.
Just so you don't think you're crazy, or alone in this, I've seen the exact same behavior between linux and Solaris boxes. I just chalked it up to bad voodoo and went linux <-> linux instead.
- Steve
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