On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Bob Bencze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings.
> I have a X4500 with an 8TB RAIDZ datapool, currently 75% full. I have it 
> carved up into several  filesystems. I share out two of the  filesystems 
> /datapool/data4 (approx 1.5TB) and /datapool/data5 (approx 3.5TB). THe data 
> is imagery, and the primary application on the PCs is Socetset.
> The clients are Windows XP Pro, and I use services for unix (SFU) to mount 
> the nfs shares from the thumper. When a client PC accesses files from data4, 
> they come across quickly. When the same client accesses files from data5, the 
> transfer rate comes to a crawl, and sometimes the application times out.
> The only difference I can see is the size of the volume, the data is all of 
> the same type.
>
> I could find no references for any limitations on the volume size of nfs 
> shares or mounts. It seems inconsistent and difficult to duplicate. I plan to 
> begin a more in-depth troubleshooting of the problem with dtrace.
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this before?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Bob Bencze
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SFU NFS is often slow, but tunable, here is something you might find
handy to squeeze some speed out of it:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463205.aspx

HTH

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Brent Jones
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