I was wondering if you ever figured this out or if you've reported 
it. I'm testing a configuration using snv_99 and am seeing similar 
behavior.


>I want to take advantage of the iSCSI target support in the latest 
>release (svn_91) of OpenSolaris, and I'm running into some 
>performance problems when reading/writing from/to my target. I'm 
>including as much detail as I can so bear with me here...
>
>I've built an x86 OpenSolaris server (Intel Xeon running NV_91) with 
>a zpool of 15 750GB SATA disks, of which I've created and exported a 
>ZFS Volume with the shareiscsi=on property set to generate an iSCSI 
>target. 
>
>My problem is, when I connect to this target from any initiator 
>(tested with both Linux 2.6 and OpenSolaris NV_91 SPARC and x86), 
>the read/write speed is dreadful (~ 3 megabytes / second!).  When I 
>test read/write performance locally with the backing pool, I have 
>excellent speeds. The same can be said when I use services such as 
>NFS and FTP to move files between other hosts on the network and the 
>volume I am exporting as a Target. When doing this I have achieved 
>the near-Gigabit speeds I expect, which has me thinking this isn't a 
>network problem of some sort (I've already disabled the Neagle 
>algorithm if you're wondering). It's not until I add the iSCSI 
>target to the stack that the speeds go south, so I am concerned that 
>I may be missing something in configuration of the target.
>

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Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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