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SubjectRe: Massive slowdown when re-querying large nfs dir
On Tuesday November 6, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:28:11 +0300 Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
> > Al Boldi wrote:
> > > There is a massive (3-18x) slowdown when re-querying a large nfs dir (2k+
> > > entries) using a simple ls -l.
> > >
> > > On 2.6.23 client and server running userland rpc.nfs.V2:
> > > first try: time -p ls -l <2k+ entry dir> in ~2.5sec
> > > more tries: time -p ls -l <2k+ entry dir> in ~8sec
> > >
> > > first try: time -p ls -l <5k+ entry dir> in ~9sec
> > > more tries: time -p ls -l <5k+ entry dir> in ~180sec
> > >
> > > On 2.6.23 client and 2.4.31 server running userland rpc.nfs.V2:
> > > first try: time -p ls -l <2k+ entry dir> in ~2.5sec
> > > more tries: time -p ls -l <2k+ entry dir> in ~7sec
> > >
> > > first try: time -p ls -l <5k+ entry dir> in ~8sec
> > > more tries: time -p ls -l <5k+ entry dir> in ~43sec
> > >
> > > Remounting the nfs-dir on the client resets the problem.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Ok, I played some more with this, and it turns out that nfsV3 is a lot
> > faster. But, this does not explain why the 2.4.31 kernel is still over
> > 4-times faster than 2.6.23.
> >
> > Can anybody explain what's going on?
> >
>
> Sure, Neil can! ;)

Nuh.
He said "userland rpc.nfs.Vx". I only do "kernel-land NFS". In these
days of high specialisation, each line of code is owned by a different
person, and finding the right person is hard....

I would suggest getting a 'tcpdump -s0' trace and seeing (with
wireshark) what is different between the various cases.

NeilBrown
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