"find" thrashes NFS servers
Hugh LaMaster
lamaster at ames.arc.nasa.gov
Wed Oct 4 10:35:54 AEST 1989
Why does "find" thrash NFS servers? Is there anything that can be done
about it?
I have observed it on a wide variety of machines and situations, but I
don't know the cause or cure, if any. If you haven't tried it, run a
performance monitor on a server, go to a client, and find something
in /usr say or whatever is mounted on the server. I have seen load averages
as high as 35 and 90% in system state on a 2 MIPS Sun server - 4 nfs daemons,
Xylogics 753/ Imprimis SMD-E drives. I have also seen this effect on Ultrix.
Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9, UUCP ames!lamaster
NASA Ames Research Center ARPA lamaster at ames.arc.nasa.gov
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Phone: (415)694-6117
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