Increasing NFS performance

PROBLEM

After 8 concurrent connections to the NFS store, my performance is degraded.

ENVIRONMENT

On-Premise Server + WebMail Installations: Version 6.0 > Current Version.

CAUSE

By default, the NFS daemon will only spawn up to 8 processes.

RESOLUTION

This can be improved by increasing the RPCNFSDCOUNT value.

Open a file called nfs in /etc/sysconfig in your editor
```
/etc/sysconfig/nfs
```
In the above file, edit the following line to either 32; 64; or 128; depending on the load you experience on your system
```
#RPCNFSDCOUNT=8
```
Save the changes and restart NFS
```
/etc/init.d/nfs restart
```

This can be tested using the following command:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/local/atmail/users/testfile  bs=16k count=1000

If the value returned for transfer speed is less than 1MB/s you should check that your switch and ethernet card, and the disks on the NFS server are optimized.

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