tuning NFS for a write heavy environment

[Lonni J Friedman]

Anyone have any experience tuning NFS (Linux only) for a write
intensive environment ?

For background:
I've got a Linux NFS server, serving up /home from a 3 SATA disk
mdraid RAID5 array (underlying filesystem is XFS).  Alot of developers
are using this NFS mount for doing builds, so its almost continuously
under heavy write pressure.   The server usually has a bunch of nfsd
processes consuming most of the CPU time.

The server itself has a Athlon64X2-6400 (3.2Ghz) CPU, with 2GB of RAM.
 Its not swapping at all.

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