Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Hmmm, looks like it might be realtek lossage. Crystaldiskmark just finished the read phase. Getting about 56MB/sec, which isn't tremendous, but it beats the snot out of the 33 or so the RT was generating. I then re-ran the iSCSI crystaldiskmark test, and got about the same amount! e.g. cifs is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Yes, the centos box is a mini-atom with onboard realtek. The win7 I was using the onboard realtek too. -Original Message- From: Gregory Youngblood [mailto:greg...@youngblood.me] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:42 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Gregory Youngblood
Did both the CentOS and Windows boxes have realtek cards? I don't know if I missed that detail earlier. I don't know that it will make much of a difference, though in the past I do know that realtek cards had "issues" and sometimes wouldn't perform very well. These days I pretty much stick with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
An intel pro/1000, unfortunately, it'll be a pain to try it. The centos box has no pci slots. I'll have to pull my win7 box open and try it there. Stay tuned... -Original Message- From: Gregory Youngblood [mailto:greg...@youngblood.me] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:05 PM To: Discus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Gregory Youngblood
On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > Oh, good point. Not sure what is going on then. My win7-64 box has realtek > NIC, and perf is fine with everything but CIFS. The centos box also has > realtek, IIRC. Odd... > Do you have a non realtek nic you can try? ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Thu, Apr 21 at 17:56, Gary Driggs wrote: On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:23 PM, "Eric D. Mudama" wrote: Except I'm not running them all the way to the client, and my networking gear is cheap. The only jumbo link is between my server and my first switch. If frame size had a large effect, I'd expect m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Oh, good point. Not sure what is going on then. My win7-64 box has realtek NIC, and perf is fine with everything but CIFS. The centos box also has realtek, IIRC. Odd... -Original Message- From: Eric D. Mudama [mailto:edmud...@bounceswoosh.org] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:23 PM T

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Gary Driggs
On Apr 21, 2011, at 4:23 PM, "Eric D. Mudama" wrote: > Except I'm not running them all the way to the client, and my > networking gear is cheap. The only jumbo link is between my server > and my first switch. If frame size had a large effect, I'd expect my > MTU1500 clients to show a performance

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Thu, Apr 21 at 18:59, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Well, there is a difference right there - you are running jumbo frames; I am not. Except I'm not running them all the way to the client, and my networking gear is cheap. The only jumbo link is between my server and my first switch. If frame

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Well, there is a difference right there - you are running jumbo frames; I am not. -Original Message- From: Eric D. Mudama [mailto:edmud...@bounceswoosh.org] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:45 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21 at 13:53, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: >> Gary wrote: >>> I can't speak to this issue in regards to OpenIndiana but CIFS/samba >>> has historically been much slower than NFS, FTP, and even netatalk, >>> etc. due to its large metadat

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-21 Thread Toomas Soome
the basic math behind the scenes is following (and not entirely determined): 1. DTT data is kept in metadata part of ARC; 2. metadata default max is arc_c_max / 4. note that you can rise that limit. 3. arc max is RAM - 1GB. so, if you have 8GB of ram, your arc max is 7GB and max metadata is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-21 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Thu, Apr 21 at 14:12, James Kohout wrote: All, Been running opensolaris 134 with a 9T RaidZ2 array as a backup server in a production environment. Whenever I tried to turn the ZFS deduplication I always had crashes and other issues, which I most likely attributed to the know ZFS dedup bugs

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Thu, Apr 21 at 13:53, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Gary wrote: I can't speak to this issue in regards to OpenIndiana but CIFS/samba has historically been much slower than NFS, FTP, and even netatalk, etc. due to its large metadata overhead. One can observe this in the wild with a few well time t

[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS with Dedupication for NFS server

2011-04-21 Thread James Kohout
All, Been running opensolaris 134 with a 9T RaidZ2 array as a backup server in a production environment. Whenever I tried to turn the ZFS deduplication I always had crashes and other issues, which I most likely attributed to the know ZFS dedup bugs in 134. Once I rebuild the pool without

[OpenIndiana-discuss] poor performance scaling when deploying shared zfs filesystems.

2011-04-21 Thread Alastair Neil
I had a bug filed with Sun on Opensolaris long ago (CR 6850837 , P2 utility/filesharing libshare enhancements to address performance and scalability) and I thought I try OI to see if anything had improved with recent builds. I am trying to deploy around 6000 filesystems across 3 pools. Each pool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Gary wrote: I can't speak to this issue in regards to OpenIndiana but CIFS/samba has historically been much slower than NFS, FTP, and even netatalk, etc. due to its large metadata overhead. One can observe this in the wild with a few well time tcpdumps. One thing that might be worth investigating

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Gary
I can't speak to this issue in regards to OpenIndiana but CIFS/samba has historically been much slower than NFS, FTP, and even netatalk, etc. due to its large metadata overhead. One can observe this in the wild with a few well time tcpdumps. One thing that might be worth investigating in this situa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-21 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> This is truly odd. I have replied several times with real info, and > the > posts do not get through, but I send a test one and it does :( Anyway, > it > seems to be protocol related, as nfs reads are about 70MB/sec, twice > what > either cifs or samba are doing... Strange indeed - I've seen CIF