18 Aug
2008
18 Aug
'08
5:48 p.m.
Hey Todd,
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Todd C. Merrill tmerrill@mathworks.com wrote:
Is there any limit to the number of CIFS shares that can be defined on/under a filer / clustered pair / aggregate / volume / qtree / etc.?
While I haven't ever encountered the limits of ONTAP, on smaller models there is a noticeable performance-related downside when using 1000+ shares. For some reason it seems that all the CIFS locking, states and maybe even the shares themselves take up quite some memory, resulting in a lower cache-age.
If you want to create a per-user share, you might want to consider the autohome option, it seems to take up less resources.
HTH & HAND !
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