Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:08:24 +0100 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFS workloads |
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On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:20:11 -0500 Steve Rago <sar@nec-labs.com> wrote:
> > I don't disagree, but "that's not what we do" hardly provides insight > into making the judgment call. In this case, the variety of > combinations of NFS server speed, NFS client speed, transmission link > speed, client memory size, and server memory size argues for a tunable > parameter, because one value probably won't work well in all > combinations. Making it change dynamically based on these parameters > is more complicated than these circumstances call for, IMHO.
if you as the expert do not know how to tune this... how is a sysadmin supposed to know better?
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