On Wed, 07/04/2012 09:58 PM, Errol Neal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello All.
> 
> Since I'm using the SerNet packages from Enterprise Samba dot org, please 
> feel free to say "you should be asking the folks from Enterprise Samba about 
> that"..
> 
> Now with that said, on to my issue - for which i'd be very grateful if 
> someene can help me understand  if there is an issue with my configuration 
> (either OS or samba) or perhaps if I've stumbled across a bug. 
> 
> I'm running the SerNet Samba Packages (3.6.6-44) on two-node CTDB cluster.
> My OS is CentOS 6.2. My cluster stack is Pacemaker and my filesystem is 
> OCFS2. 
> And just to make sure I've got everything covered, I'm using kernel 
> 2.6.39-200.24.1 from the Oracle public yum servers so I can use some of the 
> latest OCFS2 features on my filesystem and all of this is running on XCP 
> (open source XenServer) 
> 
> As far as hardware details go, this is running on a PowerEdge R515 with 128GB 
> of memory and 12 600GB 15K SAS drives with a H700 controller.
> 
> I've been doing some basic performance testing and so far, I'd say my 
> performance is exceptional. From two Windows VMs on a completely different 
> host, I'm able to saturate two gibabit links when copying large files to and 
> from the share, but there is a problem when I attempt to make copies of the 
> files on the same share (e.g. copy \\server\share\file1 
> \\server\share\file1.backup) - and the behavior appears to be filesystem 
> agnostic. I've tried with ext3 also and the behavior is the same. The Windows 
> copy progress indicator will go back and forth and then finally it tells me 
> I'm getting about several hundred KB p/s. And I know it's not the filesystem 
> because on my OCFS2 volume, it takes me less than 5 seconds to copy and 480MB 
> ISO back to the same filesystem.
> 
> So that is my issue. Here are some files in case you have any thoughts. 
> Please let me know if you'd like more information. 
> 

I realized that I should have included some performance metrics from another 
OS. When performing the same operation on a Linux VM running on the same VM 
host as the Windows servers I was conducting tests from earlier, it took 34 
seconds to backup the same ISO image to the same directory on the same share. 
When I copied the file from the share to the local disk of the Linux VM, it 
took less than 2 seconds. 


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