The throughput of local filesystem or an nfs mount can be captured using iozone. The below command starts throughput calculation on /d1 filesystem , with 2 IO threads working on /d1/test/f1 and /d1/test/f2. You can increase the number of threads and filesize. This will be helpful in analyzing the IO rate on your system of nfs filesystem.
For NFS, you can mount the filesystem with different “rsize” and “wsize” and perform this tests for each rsize/wsize values – and find out the best suited values for your setup.
bash# iozone -s 100m -t 2 -F /d1/test/f1 /d1/test/f2
Iozone: Performance Test of File I/O
Version $Revision: 3.283 $
Compiled for 32 bit mode.
Build: linux
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File size set to 102400 KB
Command line used: iozone -s 100m -t 2 -F /d1/test/f1 /d1/test/f2
Output is in Kbytes/sec
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 2 processes
Each process writes a 102400 Kbyte file in 4 Kbyte records
Children see throughput for 2 initial writers = 52752.54 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 initial writers = 49633.24 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 24368.57 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 28383.98 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 26376.27 KB/sec
Min xfer = 87924.00 KB
Children see throughput for 2 rewriters = 58447.32 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 rewriters = 58148.43 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 28321.71 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 30125.61 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 29223.66 KB/sec
Min xfer = 96268.00 KB
Children see throughput for 2 readers = 597275.21 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 readers = 567971.94 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 86263.74 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 511011.47 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 298637.61 KB/sec
Min xfer = 18244.00 KB
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Children see throughput for 2 reverse readers = 551658.72 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 reverse readers = 549420.03 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 9038.66 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 542620.06 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 275829.36 KB/sec
Min xfer = 1708.00 KB
Children see throughput for 2 stride readers = 377521.64 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 stride readers = 368290.16 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 59013.74 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 318507.91 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 188760.82 KB/sec
Min xfer = 19472.00 KB
Children see throughput for 2 random readers = 352898.12 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 random readers = 351727.80 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 27341.34 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 325556.78 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 176449.06 KB/sec
Min xfer = 8612.00 KB
Children see throughput for 2 mixed workload = 177942.61 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 mixed workload = 89133.63 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 64354.38 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 113588.23 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 88971.30 KB/sec
Min xfer = 58012.00 KB
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Children see throughput for 2 pwrite writers = 55950.09 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 pwrite writers = 55377.80 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 27811.84 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 28138.25 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 27975.04 KB/sec
Min xfer = 101212.00 KB
Children see throughput for 2 pread readers = 1165896.81 KB/sec
Parent sees throughput for 2 pread readers = 1128007.09 KB/sec
Min throughput per process = 577944.88 KB/sec
Max throughput per process = 587951.94 KB/sec
Avg throughput per process = 582948.41 KB/sec
Min xfer = 94876.00 KB
iozone test complete.
