Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-07 Thread Juho Mäkinen
It solved my problems, the difference was really huge. The onboard realtek 8111B chip could do about 40Mt/sec file transfer over CIFS which looked good, but in reality the io speed was very bad: backups to the CIFS share took ages, copying files to using ftp and unzipping files located in the ci

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-06 Thread MC
> Then I went and bought an Intel PCI Gigabit Ethernet card for 25€ which seems > to have solved the problem. Is this really the case? If so that is an important clue to finding out why virtualized opensolaris performance is so poor. I tried every network adapter in virtualbox and vmware and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-02 Thread Will Murnane
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 13:16, Juho Mäkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then I went and bought an Intel PCI Gigabit Ethernet card for 25€ which seems > to have solved the problem. I still need to do some testing though to verify. Glad to hear it. >> Is hardware checksum offloading enabled on eith

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-02 Thread Juho Mäkinen
> A few things to try: put in a different ethernet card > if you have one, > on one or more ends. Realtek works, but I've been > unimpressed with > their performance in the past. An Intel x1 pci > express card will only > run you around $40, and I've seen much better results > with them. I fir

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-01 Thread MC
> It looks pretty lively from my browser :-) Now that you showed up ;) In my case it is OpenSolaris in VirtualBox so I was expecting more cooperation, or at least people striving to make them cooperate. But like you said, this is likely just a case of OpenSolaris being optimized for big iron a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-01 Thread Richard Elling
MC wrote: > I mentioned this too, but on the performance forum: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64907&tstart=0 > > Unfortunately the performance forum has tumbleweeds blowing through it, so > that was probably the wrong place to complain. Not that people don't care > abou

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-01 Thread MC
I mentioned this too, but on the performance forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64907&tstart=0 Unfortunately the performance forum has tumbleweeds blowing through it, so that was probably the wrong place to complain. Not that people don't care about performance, but th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-01 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 16:34, Juho Mäkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's bonnie++ output with default settings: > Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- > --Random- >-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- > Machine

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-01 Thread Juho Mäkinen
Here's bonnie++ output with default settings: Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP sonas

Re: [zfs-discuss] Streaming video and audio over CIFS lags.

2008-07-01 Thread Will Murnane
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 14:47, Juho Mäkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Streaming video or even audio from the exported shares to windows xp gives a > laggy performance. Seeking the video can take ages, audio (playing mp3 with > winamp from the cifs share) stops from time to time and also the vid