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
>
>
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Henrik Johansson
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