Seems like this has already been discussed so please ignore my post if it looks redundant.
Afshin Afshin Salek wrote: > What is your NIC card? > > Also we have a problem with oplocks which we're working on it so it's not > enabled by > default. Just to see if it makes any difference in the performance you can > enable oplocks > using sharectl and run your tests again. > > Afshin > > Original post: > > heya, > > I have a IBM x3650 server, Dual Quad-Core Xeon's, with 15K SAS disks, running > VMWare ESX 3.5. One virtual machine is a Windows 2008 Server, with 2.0 Gb of > RAM allocated, and another is a OpenSolaris 2008.11 (currently RC2) server, > also with 2.0 Gb of RAM allocated. > > The osol box is acting as a file-server, with ZFS/CIFS, running in domain > mode. > > This isn't very empirical, but I've noticed that the performance of the osol > network shares seems awfully slow. When just moving files around onto the > osol network share, I've noticed the write-speed in the Windows copy dialog > is often around 6-11 Mbps, sometimes going up to 20 Mbps. > > Copying files onto the local harddisk on the Windows 2008 server seems to get > speeds around 50 - 75 MBps (in the copy dialog). > > Even copying a file to a share on another file-server (running Windows 2003, > in workgroup mode), on an old Dell SC430 server with cheap SATA disks, > performance is also around 40 Mbps. > > I did a quick test using FC-copy > (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/fc-test.html), a simple app > that simply times how long it takes to write dummy files. > > Writing three ISO files (with sizes 448Mb, 526Mb, and 712 Mb) took > - 30.266 seconds to the local drive on the Windows 2008 server > - 76.5 seconds to the Solaris fileshare > - 31.219 seconds copying to the old Dell SC430 server. > > Now, I know that osol-2008.11 isn't production ready, but these performance > numbers seem really down. From memory, file writes did seem a *little* faster > (around 30MBps) under an older 2008.11 build (97, I think), but even then, > were quite slow. Should there be such a huge discrepancy between local writes > on the Windows 2008 server, and writes to the osol file share? (Considering > they're both running on the same physical machine) > > Is there something that I'm mis-configuring on this side, or is this the > performance I should be expecting? > > Cheers, > Victor > > PS: As a side-note, there's another issue we're having with another app which > may not be Solaris-related. > > Basically, it's an application called Handitax, a small Australian tax > package (I doubt anybody here's heard of it...lol), which we're running off > the osol file server. Currently, it seems to be acting up (it says it can't > find its transmission reports), which I'm not sure if it's caused by a > permission issue. > > Previously, it was running on the file share on the Dell SC430 server with > Windows 2003, in workgroup mode. It is now being served by the osol box in > domain mode. Not sure if there's some fiddling I need to do with the osol > box, but is there a definite way to find out if it's a permission thing, or > if the program just doesn't seem to like Solaris? (I suppose I could setup > another box in workgroup mode? Or is there a way to switch between the two?) _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
