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NFS for clusters

Mon, 10/01/2012 - 10:58 — sandip
(via billharlan.com)

Here are notes I've found useful for configuring reliable shared disk on a linux cluster...

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Tue, 10/02/2012 - 15:41 — sandip Optimizing NFS Performance

Optimizing NFS Performance

Tue, 10/02/2012 - 15:10 — sandip tuning nfs I/O

While tuning nfs mount options, you can check on the transfer speeds doing simultaneous writes via:

for x in {1..10}; do echo "dd if=/dev/zero of=del.me${x} bs=64k count=1000" ; done | xargs -n5 -P10 time

Run the command from the client, where nfs is mounted.

Mon, 10/01/2012 - 11:08 — sandip tuning nfs server threads

Of specific interest was the nfs server threads which can be monitored with:

watch -d "grep '^th' /proc/net/rpc/nfsd"

The first number is the number of threads available for servicing requests, and the the second number is the number of times that all threads have been needed. The remaining 10 numbers are a histogram showing how many seconds a certain fraction of the threads have been busy, starting with less than 10% of the threads and ending with more than 90% of the threads. If the last few numbers have accumulated a significant amount of time, then your server probably needs more threads.

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