Hi again, No ideas or pointers on how to look for the problem? A DTrace script maybe? I have searched the net but there is not much information available regarding performance and the CIFS server.
Regards Henrik On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:01 AM, Henrik Johansson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed a file server based on snv_106 but I am not getting > the performance I expected out of the CIFS server over a gigabit > network. > > I have checked the network and other protocols work as expected and I > have tested this from two different client, a OSOL 2008.11 updated to > snv_105 and a MacBook pro with OS X 10.5.6. > > iPERF read 907-942MBit/s write 707-852MBit/s > > For simple file copy (a 700MB ISO): > FTP read 109-112MB/s write 82-99MB/s > NFS read 89-104MB/s write 78-87MB/s > iSCSI read 28-78MB/s write 27-69MB/s > (probably du to OSX initiator, if i add other copy operations it will > go up over 70MB/s) > > CIFS read 26-44MB/s write 27-44MB/s > (here the OSOL host got the worst performance numbers) > > Is this kind of performance expected with CIFs or does anyone have > suggestions on what might be causing this? If I mount the filesystem > from the server itself i get over 200MB/s, so based on that it would > be the network but the performance with the other protocols indicates > otherwise. > > Server Configuration: > Solaris nevada build snv_106 > Hardware AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz, 8GB memory > NIC: Intel 82572GI > A raidz pool with three SATA disks > > Henrik Johansson > http://sparcv9.blogspot.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > cifs-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss Henrik Johansson http://sparcv9.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
