On 29/04/2016 17:07, "[email protected] on behalf of Aslam Ghumra (IT Services, Facilities Management)" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
>Many thanks Yaron, after the change to disable encryption we were able to >increase the speed via Ubuntu of copying files from the local desktop to >our gpfs filestore with average speeds of 60Mbps. > >We also tried changing the mount from vers=3.0 to vers=2.1, which gave >similar figures > >However, using the Ubuntu gui ( Unity ) the speed drops down to 7Mbps, >however, we¹re not concerned as the user will use rsync / cp. > > >The other issue is copying data from gpfs filestore to the local HDD, >which resulted in 4Mbps. > >Aslam Ghumra >Research Data Management I wonder if Unity uses what used to be called the "gnome virtual filesystem" to connect. It may be using it's own implementation that's not such a well written samba/cifs (which ever they are using) client than the implementation used if you mount it "properly" with mount.smb/mount.cifs. Laurence -- Laurence Hurst Research Computing, IT Services, University of Birmingham w: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/bear (http://servicedesk.bham.ac.uk/ for support) e: [email protected] _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
