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The /etc/fstab entry used by my nfs client is {server_ip}:/home/{server_user}/{server_path} /home/{client_user}/{client_path}

I wanted to know the rsize and wsize values used by default. I wanted to try out some benchmarks with various values smaller and larger than the default values so that i can arrive at an optimum value for my read heavy setup.

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Don't modify rsize and wsize. Recent NFS servers and clients will work out the best value for you and will probably do a better job than you would as well. :)

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If you are on a Linux box, take a look at /proc/mounts. You'll find the current value there. If you specify no value in /etc/fstab, that will be the default (or at least, a value that is considered sane by the system).

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These are the options we use most of the time


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but nobody explain why use that parameter, this is my default rsize and wsize from my workstation [root@worktux ~]# grep nfs /proc/mounts /mnt nfs rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600‌​,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=,mountvers=3,mountport=20048,mountpro‌​to=udp,local_lock=none,addr= 0 0 –  c4f4t0r Jun 8 at 19:55

I believe the default rsize and wsize are 8192 for both UDP and TCP mounts.

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