After my recent series of postings, I was made aware of David Lutz’s blog on NFS client performance with Solaris. It turns out that you can vastly improve the performance of NFS clients using a new parameter to adjust the number of client connections.
root@saemrmb9> grep rpcmod /etc/system set rpcmod:clnt_max_conns=8
This parameter was introduced in a patch for various flavors of Solaris. For details on the various flavors, see David Lutz’s recent blog entry on improving NFS client performance. Soon, it should be the default in Solaris making out-of-box client performance scream.
DSS query throughput with Kernel NFS
I re-ran the DSS query referenced in my last entry and now kNFS matches the throughput of dNFS with 10gigE.
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Kernel NFS throughput with Solaris 10 Update 8 (set rpcmod:clnt_max_conns=8)
This is great news for customers not yet on Oracle 11g. With this latest fix to Solaris, you can match the throughput of Direct NFS on older versions of Oracle. In a future post, I will explore the CPU impact of dNFS and kNFS with OLTP style transactions.
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