Article: Q241432
Product(s): Microsoft Windows NT
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Keyword(s): kbenv
Last Modified: 10-AUG-2001
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows NT Services for UNIX Add-On Pack
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SUMMARY
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You can tune the NFS Server component of Services for UNIX (SFU) to some degree
for improved performance, especially when a large number of files or folders is
being shared.
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The performance of large Windows NT NFS file shares (exports) is related to the
following factors:
- Inode entries must be generated for all possible file names. For MS-DOS
compatibility, the NTFS file system always generates another file name for
any name that does not conform to the normal MS-DOS 8.3 file name
specification. However, it takes some time to verify that these automatically
generated file names are unique within the folder. If you can reasonably
restrict file naming to the 8.3 convention, you should do so.
- The size of the inode file directly relates to the speed at which it can be
parsed. It is important to keep this file entirely in memory. For each drive
on the Windows NT NFS server, you should set the Inode Cache Size setting to
adequately hold the number of inode entries required for all of the files
shared by NFS for all NFS shares on that particular drive. Typically, the
minimum inode file requirement is:
((the number of files shared + the total number of folders within all of the
shares) * 2)
Keep the number of folder levels to a minimum to reduce the size of this cache.
- Increase the number of directory cache pages to provide storage in memory for
all of the folder information on all NFS shares on the server. The number of
directory cache pages required is also proportional to the number of folder
levels for each NFS share. The fewer the levels, the smaller the number of
cache pages required. These are 4-kilobyte (KB) pages, so the maximum amount
of folder information that can be stored in memory is 4 megabytes (MB). If
you need more storage, the folder information is not cached, but is read
directly from disk (which slows performance). It is important, for fast
performance, that all directory information be read from cache.
- Disable all symbolic link support. Symbolic link support degrades performance
and should be disabled if not needed.
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