NFS vs. md raid

"Christopher McCrory" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
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Hello...

  speaking of NFS...

  I've continually had slow write performance ( specifically file
creation) with RHEL3 when the NFS server filesystem is a software raid
device.  THe same thing happens with RHEL4.  When using a single drive
as an export, performance is fast.  So far the only option I have found
that helps is exporting with the 'async' option.  All clients are also
RHEL

example:
time tar -xzf lots.of.files.tar.gz

local drive:
real    0m6.053s
user    0m2.210s
sys     0m1.180s

nfs with async (insane)
real    0m6.492s
user    0m2.150s
sys     0m1.140s

nfs with sync  (sane)
real    1m52.756s
user    0m2.430s
sys     0m1.290s


6 seconds vs. 120 seconds.  Ouch

Any ideas?


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