<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 98.2 beta6 (August 14th, 1998) original version by: Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Performance</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Performance"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="nfs"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="nfs.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node18.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node5.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="nfs.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node12.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html139" HREF="node12.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/next_motif.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html137" HREF="nfs.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/up_motif.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html131" HREF="node10.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/previous_motif.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html140" HREF="node12.html">The User-Space NFS Server</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html138" HREF="nfs.html">NFS server in Linux:</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html132" HREF="node10.html">Results</A> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION00040000000000000000"> Performance</A> </H1> <P> We measured the NFS server performances under different server setup for the NFS V2 protocol with UDP. We used SPEC System File Server Suite Release 2.0 (SFS 2.0) from Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The test was done for both the kernel-space NFS server in Linux kernel 2.2.9 plus the kernel NFS server patches in knfsd 1.4.2 and the user-space NFS server version 2.2beta37. The setup consists of <P> <UL><LI>A NFS server is a dual 500Mhz Pentium III Xeon 512KB cache with 256MB RAM, 1 Intel 82557 100Mb Ethernet controller, 2 SCSI U-2 NCR53C895 controllers, 1 18GB QUANTUM QM318000TD-SW harddrive on one SCSI controller, 4 9GB SEAGATE ST39102LW harddrives on the other SCSI controller running the Linux kernel 2.2.9 plus knfsd 1.4.2. <P> <LI>Clients are a 500Mhz Pentium III with 128MB RAM running the Linux kernel 2.2.7, a dual 500Mhz Pentium III with 256MB RAM running the kernel 2.2.9, a quad 400Mhz Pentium III Xeon 1024KB cache with 1GB RAM running the Linux kernel 2.2.7, a Sparc Ultra 10 running Solaris 7 and a 450MHz Pentium II with 64MB RAM running Solaris 7. <P> <LI>All machines are connected with 100Mb Ethernet switches. </UL> <P> Those performance measurements were only used for the Linux NFS server tuning. They shouldn't be interpreted for any other purposes. To compare the Linux kernel-space NFS server performance with other implementations requires to follow very strict rules setup by SPEC, which is not the intention of this paper. <P> <BR><HR> <!--Table of Child-Links--> <A NAME="CHILD_LINKS"></A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="tex2html141" HREF="node12.html">The User-Space NFS Server</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html142" HREF="node13.html">The Kernel-Space NFS Server</A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="tex2html143" HREF="node14.html">Light Load</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html144" HREF="node15.html">Moderate Load</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html145" HREF="node16.html">Heavy Load</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html146" HREF="node17.html">Other Factors</A> </UL></UL> <!--End of Table of Child-Links--> <HR> <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html139" HREF="node12.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/next_motif.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html137" HREF="nfs.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/up_motif.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html131" HREF="node10.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="/usr/lib/latex2html/icons.png/previous_motif.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html140" HREF="node12.html">The User-Space NFS Server</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html138" HREF="nfs.html">NFS server in Linux:</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html132" HREF="node10.html">Results</A> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> <I>H.J. Lu</I> <BR><I>1999-08-15</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>
