Aaron Moore wrote:
> First I wanted thank everyone for the help they've bene giving me. This
> introduction to Opensolaris has been challenging but with eveyrones
> support I am really getting things working quickly.
> 
> I've got my system running the 2008.5 opensolaris and when I look at the
> system monitor under network history, the graph shows about 90%
> utilization (when running performance tests) and says below about 9.1
> MiB/s This seem like a 100Mbit ethernet not gigabit performance.

you need to give a bit (read: lots!) more information ...

- are you sure you have a 1Gb connection in the first place? One way to 
find out is "kstat -p -n e1000g0 -s ifspeed" (replace e1000g0 with your 
interface". the output is bits/s, so you should see

e1000g:0:e1000g0:ifspeed        1000000000

again, with your adapter's name in place of e1000g0. If you get 10^8, you 
have a 100Mbit connection.

- how/what are you testing? CPU utilisation and network throughput don't 
necessarily go in lockstep. I just looked at mine, and it said 0 Mib/s - 
there wasn't anything going on.

> I am running 3 Segate 7200.11 1T drives across 3 LSI SAS3041 controllers
> (1 drive each) configured with zfs in a raidz and cifs.

how is this related to network throughput (I'm not saying it isn't, you 
just haven't said)?

> I'm not sure what kind of performance I should be expecting, but It
> seems like the bottleneck might be the network here. And if so how can I
> check this? My motherboard (MSI P6 Diamond) has gigabit but from what I
> am seeing it looks like its not utilizing it at all. What gives?

answer the questions above ...

HTH
Michael
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