Re: NFS performance

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

I seem to recall and article or white paper that gave some tips/tricks
for configuring NFS for optimal performance.

But I can't seem to find it again.

Sorry,
Charles

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM, James Rich<james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm using NFS to mount a directory from a linux machine that I copy
> savefiles to as part of our nightly backup.  The savefiles add up to about
> 12GB.  I just copy the savefiles to the NFS mounted directory using:
>
> QSH CMD('cp /QSYS.LIB/BACKUPS.LIB/* /mnt/backups')
>
> I ran it for the first time last night and was shocked to discover it took
> about 12 1/2 hours to complete!  I'm on v5r3m0.  Is there a way to get
> improved NFS performance on the iSeries?
>
> James Rich
>
> if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
> the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
> when you're done reading them :)
>        - Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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