Are you using the SBUS or PCI cards in the Sun.  We have used both and found the SBUS cards to perform poorly as compared to the PCI cards.  I don't remember what our peak nfs ops were, but I'm sure we were getting better results than what you are experiencing.  Did you use the Oracle white paper at http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3047.html to setup the database on the filer?  We followed this whitepaper pretty closely because I've been told that other than references to ${ORACLE_HOME} these guidelines are pretty much requirements for system performance and data availability.

>>> "brynay_cradle" <bryany@cradle.com.tw> 04/04/01 01:30AM >>>
Hi ,
My customer setup oracle 8.15 on sun E3500 (Solaris.7)
and put oracle database on filer F840 , but performance is poor.
 
Hardware environment as
 
Filer 840
Giga Ethernet II  * 2
FC9 disk shelf  * 1
about 350 GB
 
Sun E3500 (Solaris.7)
Cpu 1 ~ 4
memory 1 GB
giga Ethernet * 2 ( direct to filer )
 
configuration as
oracle database        on /vol/vol0 use e6 giga ethernet channel
oracle index             on /vol/vol1 use e7 giga ethernet channel
 
load data to database table about 70000 records , filer ops 1000 ~ 2000
sun 1 cpu usage 30% ~ 40%
even add to 4 cpu (20% ~ 30%, never over 50%) ,
oracle process speed still slow , ops increase just to 2500 ~ 3000
it seems filer wait for sun process oracle data , but I can not increase cpu load
 
I tuned filer and sun , gigaethernet and nfs configurations already , but performance do
not get better.
Could you kind to provide any suggestion or solution for this case
 
Thanks a lots
 
Cradle Technology Corp.
Infrastructure Integration Department
Bryan Yuan
Tel: (886) 2 87682688 Ex: 634
bryany@cradle.com.tw