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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 16, 2021
Merged idea

This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit IBMI-I-1878 Increase NFS max Wsize and Rsize.

Improve NFS Client performance increasing wsize e rsize max size Merged

The actual cache parameter wsize and rsize of the NFS Client on IBMi are limited on a max of 32768 byte ,

this is a limit on performance on copy over NFS mount , especially with 10Gb ethernet connection .

on other platform the max size is 1048576 .


Use Case:

Everywhere we need a NFS mount .


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    Sep 15, 2021

    This is a duplicate of RFE 128234.

  • Guest
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    Sep 13, 2021

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Core OS
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

  • Guest
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    Sep 7, 2021

    i have compiled "https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs" for PASE and the performance using "nfs-cp" command are very good ,
    i saturate my 10Gb eth link ( limitated via powervm at 5Gb) with 450Mb/sec easily , native NFS mount max at 100Mb/sec :-(
    ... and no jumbo frame .

  • Guest
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    Sep 1, 2021

    The NFS service is slow, even with Jumbo Frames. Maybe NFS server and client needs a review , I think is a must in cloud days