nfsiostat will be the tool I use to demonstrate how latencies can degrade network saturation. I’ll be highlighting the RTT (round trip time) with different numbers of unicast tasks running simultaneously. I’ll also highlight total overall NFS throughput. I predict that once HDD seek times are maxed and the HDD can no longer keep up with the number of simultaneous reads, that network performance will drop below 1Gbps, and latencies will skyrocket.
The man page:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/nfsiostat.8.html