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In article <keith.23.0@novell.com> keith@novell.com (Keith Brown) writes:
>In article <starkg.727953303@argon> starkg@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Gavin E Stark ) writes:
>>
>>I seem to be getting about 300K/s read performance between my RS6000 (AIX)
>>and my Novell 386 server.  Is this normal speed via NFS?
>
>> Also how do I know what #s to put into the "Tune NFS performance" option in 
>> NFSADMIN?
>
>For one client? Just leave them alone.
>
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I have found great performance improvements by changing some Netware/NFS
parameters: 
SET READ AFTER WRITE VERIFY = OFF (check docs, not safe for all cntrllrs.)
SET ENABLE IMMEDIATE PURGE OF DELETED FILES = ON (whatever this param is that
			doesn't put stuff in deleted.sav)
and the biggest improvement: enable asynchronus writes at the NFS config
screen.  This is also a very very very very slight corruption point, but if
you are on UPS, I wouldn't worry about it.  

BTW, to judge performance of NFS servers, check out the nhfsstone benchmark.
Very easy to use, very consistent results and good details in the output.

Get it on gatekeeper.dec.com somewhere.



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