[mythtv-users] diskless frontend nfs throughput

Gareth Glaccum gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com
Thu Aug 6 20:39:27 UTC 2009


I used to use NFS for my diskless clients, I am now using iscsi and the 
performance is much much better. I am using streaming through the backend 
though, so this is only recordings, not music.
Gareth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Marchiori" <alan at alanmarian.com>
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dan Littlejohn<dan.littlejohn at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I have a gentoo diskless frontend that mounts using nfs and it seems like
> the throughput of nfs is slow. iperf show the network able to push 770 
> Mb/s
> and hdparm shows the sata disk on the server at 90 Mb/s, but doing a dd
> across the network only shows up as 10 Mb/s (is about 40 Mb/s when the 
> same
> test is done on the server to a third machine).
> 



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