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DateThu, 24 Aug 2006 03:15:38 -0400
From"Xin Zhao" <>
SubjectWhy will NFS client spend so much time on file open?
Hi,

I did Apache benchmark and collected the performance results at the
file system call level.
The microbenchmark results were collected when I did "make" on Apache
source code.

The results are very interesting:

		      open	        read		
Total Time (s)  21.599 	         15.948 											Count		   310274 	
 98028 											Time/Call (ms)	69.61 	         162.69

The results show that NFS spent even more time on file open than on
file read. But this result confuses me: what does NFS do to open a
file? As far as I know, it just issues a lookup() RPC to get file
handle, and maybe a getattr() RPC to get file attributes. This should
not take so much time. Can someone explain why this could happen?

Thanks,
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