NFS Performance Tuning for HP-UX 11.0 and 11i Systems

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Which NFS mount options directly

affect performance?

nfs mount

options

Disable client-side caching of file

and directory attributes

Duration of time to wait for an NFS

request to complete before

retransmitting

Network transport protocol to use

Size of the WRITE requests

Size of the READ requests

Version of the NFS protocol to use

Use only when required by

an application

noac

DO NOT USE

(Refer to page 98 for more

information)

timeo=

UDP | TCP

Refer to table on page 101

proto=

32768wsize=

32768rsize=

3vers=

DescriptionOption Recommendation

While the above table is by no means an exhaustive list of the available options to

the NFS mount command, these are the most commonly used options that can have

a significant impact on performance. For more information about the available

NFS mount options refer to the mount_nfs(1M) man page.