My OBSD (4.8-stable) virtual machine (ESXi 3.5) to OBSD (4.8-stable) physical machine isn't too bad:
ssurd...@builder03$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/VMware/test.dat bs=16k count=> 32000+0 records in 32000+0 records out 524288000 bytes transferred in 19.466 secs (26933331 bytes/sec) But, from the ESXi console it sucks. Was your NFS server physical or virtual? -Steve S. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Emille Blanc > Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ESXi client / NFS server performance > > This may be a bit late, but for what it's worth, 4.8 -release as an ESXi > 4.1 client without any knob tweaking and pf running the default ruleset. > Haven't done anything with ESXi 3.5 though, so I'm not sure what to say on > that front. > > ---...@memnarch:/home $ uname -a > OpenBSD memnarch.sarlok.com 4.8 GENERIC#136 i386 ---...@memnarch:/home $ > sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/test.dat bs=16k > count=32000 > 32000+0 records in > 32000+0 records out > 524288000 bytes transferred in 15.163 secs (34576797 bytes/sec) ----- > e...@memnarch:/home $ sudo dd of=/dev/null if=/home/test.dat bs=16k > count=32000 > 32000+0 records in > 32000+0 records out > 524288000 bytes transferred in 13.937 secs (37617959 bytes/sec) ----- > e...@memnarch:/home $ mount | grep exports 172.16.100.250:/exports/home on > /home type nfs (v3, udp, timeo=100, > retrans=101) > ---...@memnarch:/home $ dmesg | head -10 OpenBSD 4.8 (GENERIC) #136: Mon > Aug 16 09:06:23 MDT 2010 > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC > cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5504 @ 2.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2 > GHz > cpu0: > FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36, CF > LUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,SSE3,SSSE3,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT > real mem = 536375296 (511MB) > avail mem = 517644288 (493MB) > mainbus0 at root > bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 09/22/09, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd780, > SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe0010 (98 entries) > bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version "6.00" date 09/22/2009 > bios0: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform
