NFS Server Configuration:

    RedHat 7.3 with 2.418-4smp
    Using NFSv3

    Server was run with default and increased buffer size by following commands.
    Default buffer size:
    rmem_default = 65535
    rmem_max = 131071

    Increased buffer size to 1M using commands:
    echo 1048576 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default
    echo 1048576 > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max

    Server was run with eight instances of nfsd with the default buffer size and
    sixteen instances of nfsd with the increased buffer size.

    Filesystems tested were Ext3 and ReiserFS with notails.

NFS Client Configuration:
    FreeBSD 4.6
    Dell PowerEdge 1650
    Dual 1.1GHz Pentium 3 CPUS
    1G of RAM
   
    NFS drive was mounted using three rsize and wsize limits(block sizes).
    rsize=wsize=4096
    rsize=wsize=8192
    rsize=wsize=16384

Postmark Configuration:
    The base number of files is 50000
    Transactions: 30000
    Files range between 500 bytes and 9.77 kilobytes in size
    Working directory: /mnt/raid/post
    Block sizes are: read=512 bytes, write=512 bytes
    Biases are: read/append=5, create/delete=5
    Using Unix buffered file I/O
    Random number generator seed is 42
    Report format is verbose.

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Only Ext3 and ReiserFS-notails were tested because upon evaluating the results of Bonnie++ it was obvious
that ReiserFS-tails was not even going to be suitable for local hard drive access much less NFS access.

Ext3 Results

	ext3 default buffer 8 instances 4096bs	ext3 default buffer 8 instances 8192bs	ext3 default buffer 8 instances 16384bs	ext3 increased buffer 16 instances 4096bs	ext3 increased buffer 16 instances 8192bs	ext3 increased buffer 16 instances 16384bs
Transactions/sec	55	49	55	46	52	50
Creations/sec	86	72	85	81	79	82
Creations alone/sec	316	217	312	588	282	420
Creations with transactions/sec	27	24	27	23	26	25
Read/sec	27	24	27	22	26	24
Appended/sec	28	24	27	23	26	25
Deletions/sec	86	72	85	81	79	82
Deletions alone/sec	892	877	862	781	746	704
Deletions with transactions/sec	27	24	27	23	26	24
Data Read (kB/sec)	109.05	91.39	107.62	102.37	99.99	103.53
Data Written (kB/sec)	488.77	409.59	482.34	458.80	448.14	464.03

ReiserFS results

	reiserfs-notails default buffer 8 instances 4096bs	reiserfs-notails default buffer 8 instances 8192bs	reiserfs-notails default buffer 8 instances 16384bs	reiserfs-notails increased buffer 16 instances 4096bs	reiserfs-notails increased buffer 16 instances 8192bs	reiserfs-notails increased buffer 16 instances 16384bs
Transactions/sec	44	43	43	45	43	43
Creations/sec	79	77	77	80	77	77
Creations alone/sec	588	568	549	588	568	549
Creations with transactions/sec	22	21	21	22	21	21
Read/sec	22	21	21	22	21	21
Appended/sec	22	21	21	22	21	21
Deletions/sec	79	77	77	80	77	77
Deletions alone/sec	877	819	833	806	806	847
Deletions with transactions/sec	22	21	21	22	21	21
Data Read (kB/sec)	99.62	97.37	97.02	100.73	97.49	97.25
Data Written (kB/sec)	446.50	436.40	434.85	451.45	436.92	435.89

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