I am having the same issues with nfs mounts. IOZone tests would fail on anything over 10Mb. I recompiled nfs-common and it seams to have fixed the issue for me. Maybe this will help isolate the issue for everyone else. This was tested on my Lucid server. Please don't laugh at my nfs server performance. I know it stinks.
Here's how I compiled nfs-utils: r...@dev-0:~# apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev -y r...@dev-0:~# mkdir build r...@dev-0:~# cd build r...@dev-0:~/build# apt-get source nfs-common r...@dev-0:~/build# apt-get build-dep nfs-common -y r...@dev-0:~/build# dpkg-source -x nfs-utils_1.2.0-4ubuntu4.dsc r...@dev-0:~/build# cd nfs-utils-1.2.0/ r...@dev-0:~/build/nfs-utils-1.2.0# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b r...@dev-0:~/build/nfs-utils-1.2.0# dpkg -i ../nfs-common_1.2.0-4ubuntu4_amd64.deb My Kernel: Linux mup-4 2.6.32-26-server #47-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 17 17:05:29 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux My IOZone test: r...@dev-0:~# iozone -i0 -r4k -s1G -e -t1 -F /mnt/slow/vol16/test Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O Version $Revision: 3.308 $ Compiled for 64 bit mode. Build: linux Contributors:William Norcott, Don Capps, Isom Crawford, Kirby Collins Al Slater, Scott Rhine, Mike Wisner, Ken Goss Steve Landherr, Brad Smith, Mark Kelly, Dr. Alain CYR, Randy Dunlap, Mark Montague, Dan Million, Gavin Brebner, Jean-Marc Zucconi, Jeff Blomberg, Benny Halevy, Erik Habbinga, Kris Strecker, Walter Wong, Joshua Root. Run began: Fri Dec 3 15:20:33 2010 Record Size 4 KB File size set to 1048576 KB Include fsync in write timing Command line used: iozone -i0 -r4k -s1G -e -t1 -F /mnt/slow/vol16/test Output is in Kbytes/sec Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds. Processor cache size set to 1024 Kbytes. Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes. File stride size set to 17 * record size. Throughput test with 1 process Each process writes a 1048576 Kbyte file in 4 Kbyte records Children see throughput for 1 initial writers = 2341.93 KB/sec Parent sees throughput for 1 initial writers = 2341.93 KB/sec Min throughput per process = 2341.93 KB/sec Max throughput per process = 2341.93 KB/sec Avg throughput per process = 2341.93 KB/sec Min xfer = 1048576.00 KB Children see throughput for 1 rewriters = 3055.24 KB/sec Parent sees throughput for 1 rewriters = 3055.22 KB/sec Min throughput per process = 3055.24 KB/sec Max throughput per process = 3055.24 KB/sec Avg throughput per process = 3055.24 KB/sec Min xfer = 1048576.00 KB iozone test complete. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661294 Title: System lock-up when receiving large files (big data amount) from NFS server -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs