On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:36 -0700, David wrote: > I'm in need of some help. I have a rhel4 server mounting an nfs share on > a NetApp filer that is having some serious performance issues. Not being > overly familiar with troublshooting nfs, I'm at a wall. Here are the > details: > > Previous server: > Dell 2650, rhel3, kernel 2.4.something > - no issues > > Current server: > Dell 2850, rhel4, kernel 2.6.9 > - gig network, e1000 module > - rpciod cpu usage is very high. > > here are my nfs mount options: > filer:/vol/exportvol /local/dir nfs > tcp,noatime,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,nfsvers=3,hard,intr 0 0 > > I've been trying to read up on nfs and performance monitoring. Hell, I've > even ran a few benchmarks. Here's the problem. I don't know how to 1) > read the results and 2) interpret the results to find a solution. > > Yes, been reading the nfs performance howto. Yes, been googling my hiney > off. Yes, still flumoxed. ---- You don't give us enough details to do anything much more than guess but I am curious what is meant by rpciod cpu usage is very high thinking that it might have something to do with this issue. I don't often detail things such as noatime, rsize, wsize, hard (in fact, I haven't used hard nfs mounts as I seemed to recall some hanging issues. Craig -- Craig White --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss