Re: nfs slowdown (RELENG_8)

On 6/24/2014 9:10 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 6/23/2014 6:41 PM, Rick Macklem wrote:
>>>
>> I suggest you try disabling TSO on the nics (or setting wsize=32786
>> on all mounts). Usually such slowdowns are related to the underlying
>> network fabric and there are known TSO issues for nics/drivers that
>> only handle 32 transmit buffers when 64K writes are being used.
>
> Thanks Rick,
>      I tried that. Both doing ifconfig em1 -tso and set net.inet.tcp.tso
> to 0.  No impact on these particular boxes.  Mount is done
>
>
> /sbin/mount_nfs -o tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,async
>
> I looked at the tcpdump between the working and non working servers and
> they look identical.  Tried changing switch ports and the problem does
> not follow the port, only the server.

I also just tried with an igb nic and the same issue.  These are i386 
boxes. I wonder if its something to do with that. (non PAE kernel)

	---Mike


-- 
-------------------
Mike Tancsa, tel [phone]
Sentex Communications, [e-mail]
Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada   http://www.tancsa.com/
_______________________________________________
[e-mail] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[e-mail]"