Configure NFS Write Performance

The default RPC requests configuration can negatively impact performance and memory. To avoid performance and memory issues, configure the number of outstanding RPC requests to the NFS server to be 128. The kernel tunable value sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries represents the number of simultaneous Remote Procedure Call (RPC) requests. This tunable's default value is 16. Increasing this value to 128 may improve write speeds. Use the command sysctl -w sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries=128 to set the value. Add an entry to your sysctl.conf file to make the setting persist across reboots.

Perform the following steps as the root user on each NFS client machine:

1. ssue the following commands to create the sunrpc.conf file under /etc/modprobe.d with the recommended configuration. This enables the configuration to persist after a reboot of the NFS client machine.

   echo "options sunrpc tcp_slot_table_entries=128" >> /etc/modprobe.d/sunrpc.conf
   echo "options sunrpc tcp_max_slot_table_entries=128" >>  /etc/modprobe.d/sunrpc.conf
   

2. Issue the following echo commands. This enables the configuration to take effect after you remount the NFS client to the NFS gateway.

   echo 128 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/tcp_slot_table_entries
   echo 128 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/tcp_max_slot_table_entries

3. Remount the NFS client to the NFS gateway. Mount the MapR NFS server with a rsize/wsize of 128K as this significantly cuts down NFS server requests for a given transfer and improves the overall performance. For example, the following commands unmount and mount the NFS assuming that the cluster is mounted at /mapr.

   # umount /mapr
   # mount -o nolock,rsize=131072,wsize=131072 <hostname>:/mapr /mapr

4. After the reboot of the node, if the /proc/sys/sunrpc directory is not available or if rpcidmapd is not running, start the rpcidmapd service using the following command: service rpcidmapd start

ERROR nfsserver[38960] fs/nfsd/requesthandle.cc:791 0.0.0.0[0] cannot allocate more OncRpcContexts: [numDropped=2556001] dropping connection from nfsc=10.13.64.225:0