[mythtv-users] diskless frontend nfs throughput

[Mike Perkins]

Gareth Glaccum wrote:
> 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).
>>
> 
> 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
> 
If you're using iSCSI, how do you resolve concurrency issues?

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Mike Perkins