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

2011-04-23 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
ordon Ross [mailto:gordon.w.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:23 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes [...] >> Redid the CIFS bench just now.  38MB/sec read, 77MB/sec write.  So ftp is >> almost twice as

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

2011-04-23 Thread Gordon Ross
[...] >> Redid the CIFS bench just now.  38MB/sec read, 77MB/sec write.  So ftp is >> almost twice as fast. > > OK, so next I'd grab a network capture of just a couple seconds during > the "middle" part of both of these transfer tests, and compare the delays > seen between requests and responses. >

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

2011-04-23 Thread Nikola M.
On 04/22/11 05:55 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > 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 crystaldisk

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

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
od [mailto:greg...@youngblood.me] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:05 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes 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 h

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

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
ilto:greg...@youngblood.me] > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:05 PM > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes > > > On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > >> >> Oh, good point

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

2011-04-21 Thread Gregory Youngblood
] > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:05 PM > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes > > > On Apr 21, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > >> >> Oh, good point. Not sure what is going

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

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
1:05 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes 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 CI

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
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes 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 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

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] 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

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

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

2011-04-20 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
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... __

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

2011-04-20 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
This is very weird. I am posting repeated messages from the list (using different providers), and not seeing them, either sent to my address or on the email archive. Argh... ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org htt

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

2011-04-20 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I've sent several messages to the list since early yesterday, and they > seem to have been getting blackholed. I sent email to the list admin > to > see if they can figure anything out, but am trying one more message to > see if that goes through. Synopsis: seems to be something smb protocol > re

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

2011-04-20 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I've sent several messages to the list since early yesterday, and they seem to have been getting blackholed. I sent email to the list admin to see if they can figure anything out, but am trying one more message to see if that goes through. Synopsis: seems to be something smb protocol relate

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

2011-04-19 Thread Gordon Ross
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes >> >> Next experiment I'd recommend is to measure r/w speeds with ftp. >> Want to narrow down disks/fs vs smb service. >> > > Redid the CIFS bench just now.  38MB/sec read, 77MB/sec write.  So ftp

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

2011-04-19 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: -Original Message- From: Gordon Ross [mailto:gordon.w.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:30 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes Next experiment I'd recommend is to measur

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

2011-04-19 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-Original Message- From: Gordon Ross [mailto:gordon.w.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:30 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes Next experiment I'd recommend is to measure r/w speeds with ftp. Wa

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

2011-04-19 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
-Original Message- From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:44 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes - Original Message - > Hmmm, just got going on this (had

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

2011-04-19 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - > Hmmm, just got going on this (had to work late.) Anyway, I'm setting > up the > iscsi and cifs shares now, but as an experiment, I did this: > > time dd of=/dev/null if=testfile bs=1M count=16K > > write speed = 322 MB/s > > then did this: > > root@nas:/tank/smbte

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

2011-04-18 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
count=16K read speed = 412 MB/s seems like this lets disk/fs off the hook, no? -Original Message- From: Gordon Ross [mailto:gordon.w.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:30 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast w

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

2011-04-18 Thread Gordon Ross
Next experiment I'd recommend is to measure r/w speeds with ftp. Want to narrow down disks/fs vs smb service. On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > I have a 5-disk raidz on a 3.2ghz P4 with 4GB ram.  OI build 148.  I set up > a cifs share and ran crystaldiskmark.  The link

[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

2011-04-17 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
I have a 5-disk raidz on a 3.2ghz P4 with 4GB ram. OI build 148. I set up a cifs share and ran crystaldiskmark. The link is gigabit, and iperf both ways exceeds 800mb/sec. Anyway, writing from my win7 box to the OI, I hit about 62MB/sec, but reads are only about 21MB/sec! I have spent an hour