NFS v3 client performance decreases drastically as number of CPU cores increase on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
- NFS v3 client performance decreases drastically as the number of CPU cores on the machine is increased.
- Exponential slowdown of nfs when number of (simultaneous) processes reading/writing increase.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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