My team opted for a self build NFS server (using an EC2 instance to serve the other instances), instead of using AWS EFS. We would like to test the latency that our NFS has, then to compare it versus the EFS.
Is there a way/tool to test latency of these NFS servers?
The simplest way is to run tshark on the client with options to print rpc response times:
$ tshark -i any -f "port 2049" -Y rpc -Tfields \ -E separator=/t -E header=y \ -e frame.number \ -e rpc.repframe \ -e rpc.time -e ip.src -e ip.dst \ -e nfs The output will be something like:
frame.number rpc.repframe rpc.time ip.src ip.dst nfs Capturing on 'any' 3 x.x.x.x y.y.y.y Network File System, Ops(1): SEQUENCE 4 3 0.000593460 y.y.y.y x.x.x.x Network File System, Ops(1): SEQUENCE 8 x.x.x.x y.y.y.y Network File System, Ops(1): SEQUENCE 9 8 0.000797399 y.y.y.y x.x.x.x Network File System, Ops(1): SEQUENCE The rpc.time in the reply frame is the difference between sending a request and receiving the reply.
NOTE: the options and output may be different depending tshark version.
Alternatively, you can just collect network traffic with dumpcap or tcpdump and analyze it with the wireshark.
