NFS Server Performance and Tuning Guide for Sun Hardware

Tuning to Improve NFS Performance

This chapter discusses tuning recommendations for these environments:

Check these items when tuning the system:

Once you have profiled the performance capabilities of your server, begin tuning the system. Tuning an NFS server requires a basic understanding of how networks, disk drives, CPUs, and memory affect performance. To tune the system, determine which parameters need adjusting to improve balance.

To Monitor and Tune Server Performance
  1. Collect statistics. See Chapter 3, Analyzing NFS Performance.

  2. Identify a constraint or overutilized resource and reconfigure around it.

    Refer to this chapter and Chapter 3, Analyzing NFS Performance for tuning recommendations.

  3. Measure the performance gain over a long evaluation period.

Balancing NFS Server Workload


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