Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-30 Thread michael schuster
dh wrote: > Hello eschrock, > > I'm a newbe on solaris, would you tell me how I can get/install build 89 of > nevada? > > Fabrice. Hi Fabrice, I think a good place to start is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/newbies/ - I don't know whether they give you access to build 89 yet, but you can cert

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-30 Thread dh
Hello eschrock, I'm a newbe on solaris, would you tell me how I can get/install build 89 of nevada? Fabrice. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-30 Thread Simon Breden
Hi Rick, OK, thanks for clarifying. As, it seems there's different devices with (1) mixed speed NICs and (2) mixed category cabling being used in your setup, I will simplify things by saying that if you want to get much faster speeds then I think you'll need to ensure you (1) use at least Cat.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Rick
> So just to verify, you never managed to get more than > 10 MBytes/sec across the link due to the network only > giving you a 100 Mbps connection? Hi Simon, I'll try to clear this up. Sorry for the confusion. The server the Solaris M2N-E is replacing had 2 NICs. When I removed the physical box

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Breden
Hi Rick, So just to verify, you never managed to get more than 10 MBytes/sec across the link due to the network only giving you a 100 Mbps connection? Simon This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolar

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Rick
> If you're doing anything with CIFS and performance, > you'll want this > fix: > > 6686647 smbsrv scalability impacted by memory > management issues > > Which was putback into build 89 of nevada. > > - Eric Thank you Eric. This is the second time someone has mentioned this to me. I imagine it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Eric Schrock
FYI - If you're doing anything with CIFS and performance, you'll want this fix: 6686647 smbsrv scalability impacted by memory management issues Which was putback into build 89 of nevada. - Eric On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:46:04AM -0700, Rick wrote: > Recently I've installed SXCE nv86 for the fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread dhenry
Hi Rick, I have the same problem as you. (sorry for my english) I have installed the same OS on a gigabyte mother board. I wanted to make a NAS with the nice ZFS. First I tried the new smb kernel implementation: file navigation (on windows) and streaming were too slow. File transfer was accepta

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Breden
Rick, Glad it worked ;-) Now if I were you, I would not upgrade the BIOS unless you really want/need to. I look forward to seeing your revised speed test data for reads and writes with the gigabit network speed working correctly. I think it should make a little difference -- I'm guessing you'l

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Simon Breden wrote: > The obvious thing that is wrong is the network being recognised as > 100Mbps and not 1000. Hopefully, the read/write speeds will fix > themselves once the network problem is fixed. > > As it's the same cable you had working previously at 1000Mbps on >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Rick
Simon, > The obvious thing that is wrong is the network being > recognised as 100Mbps and not 1000. Hopefully, the > read/write speeds will fix themselves once the > network problem is fixed. You are absolutely correct. My troubleshooting skills for things of this nature are pretty bad. I should

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Breden
Hey, hi Rick! The obvious thing that is wrong is the network being recognised as 100Mbps and not 1000. Hopefully, the read/write speeds will fix themselves once the network problem is fixed. As it's the same cable you had working previously at 1000Mbps on your other computer and the same switc

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Rick
> Rick, I have the same motherboard on my backup > machine and got 48MBytes/sec sustained on a 650GB > transfer (but that was using iSCSI), so I suggest two > things: > > 1. Make sure you are using the latest stable -- i.e. > not beta, BIOS update. You can use a USB thumbdrive > to install it, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Breden
Rick, I have the same motherboard on my backup machine and got 48MBytes/sec sustained on a 650GB transfer (but that was using iSCSI), so I suggest two things: 1. Make sure you are using the latest stable -- i.e. not beta, BIOS update. You can use a USB thumbdrive to install it, and can save the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
> I didn't cross post the following, it was sent only to the cifs discuss list: > nge. Onboard nvidia nforce 570 Ultra MCP onboard gigabit nic for the Asus > M2N-E board. > > nge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0: Using FIXED interrupt type > mac: [ID 469746 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0 registered >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-25 Thread Rick
-snip- > > What I'm doing is mounting the smb share with WinXP > and pulling data from the ZFS mirror pool at 2.3MiB/s > across the network. Writing to the same share from > the WinXP host I get a fairly consistent 342KiB/s > speed. -snip- > What performance are you getting with transfers over >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:46 -0700, Rick wrote: > Recently I've installed SXCE nv86 for the first time in hopes of getting rid > of my linux file server and using Solaris and ZFS for my new file server. > After setting up a simple ZFS mirror of 2 disks, I enabled smb and set about > moving over a