I believe that the web tool provided by netapp to facilitate the review of perfstat information by support and resellers like IBM has a size limitation for web uploads.
I think this is what IBM is referencing with their size limitation request.
Instead of doing a lot of iterations, you can script multiple smaller perfstats in succession with a while loop to better stay within this limit and keeping analysis manageable for IBM by allowing them to use that tool.
On 1/10/2014 1:49 PM, Jordan Slingerland wrote:
Thanks for the replies, http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/perfstat/perfstat7.shtml
The official docs on netapp site even use "perfstat -f filer1 -t 30 -i 46 > perfstat.$date.out" as an example to take a 24 hour perfstat. Which is certainly going to result in a very large file.
*From:*Jeff Mohler [mailto:speedtoys.racing@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 10, 2014 4:32 PM *To:* Jordan Slingerland *Cc:* Toasters@teaparty.net (Toasters@teaparty.net) *Subject:* Re: perfstat maximum size
Not true.
Windows Notepad can open files as large as 5G
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