Hello,
We are new to the Netapp and are having the problem that while copying from the Netapp to either an NT (CIFS) or Sun Solaris 2.6 box (NFS), the throughput ranges from 24K/sec to 79K/sec. Copying from an NT or Sun is wonderfully fast (we have trunked the Quad Ethernet). I only know NFS but am working with the NT guys. On the NFS side, I tried a larger packet size (32K instead of 8K), I tried vers 2 and 3, I tried UDP and TCP, and I tried various combos and permuations. I tried all this even though I believe it must be some configuration parameter on the Netapp *common* to both the CIFS stuff and NFS.
We are currently running 5.3.1 so please let me know if you think 5.3.4 will help or even fix it. The two of us both searched NOW and found CIFS or NFS specific troubleshooting stuff which we tried. We also looked through the archives. We are stumped. I am wondering if we forgot to configure something obvious. We have not done a lot of "tuning" on the NetApp, most of the posts here refer to tuning tips on the client side and I am going to try some of that too but first the basic problem needs to be resolved. I have included the output of the options command in the hopes that something there.
thanks for any help/advice you can give
Adam
netapp1> options autosupport.doit DONT autosupport.enable on autosupport.from adamh@my.dom.ain autosupport.mailhost mailhost.my.dom.ain autosupport.noteto autosupport.to autosupport@netapp.com,adam@my.dom.ain,etc. cifs.access_logging.enable off cifs.access_logging.file_name /etc/log/adtlog.evt cifs.bypass_traverse_checking on cifs.guest_account cifs.home_dir /vol/vol0/home cifs.idle_timeout 1800 cifs.netbios_aliases cifs.oplocks.enable on cifs.perm_check_use_gid on cifs.save_case off cifs.scopeid cifs.search_domains cifs.show_snapshot off cifs.symlinks.cycleguard on cifs.symlinks.enable on cifs.trace_login off console.encoding nfs dns.domainname my.dom.ain dns.enable on ftpd.enable off httpd.admin.enable on httpd.enable off httpd.log.max_file_size 2147483647 httpd.rootdir XXX httpd.timeout 900 httpd.timewait.enable off https.admin.enable off ip.match_any_ifaddr on ip.path_mtu_discovery.enable on nfs.mount_rootonly on nfs.per_client_stats.enable on nfs.tcp.enable on nfs.udp.xfersize 32768 nfs.v2.df_2gb_lim off nfs.v3.enable off nfs.webnfs.enable off nfs.webnfs.rootdir XXX nfs.webnfs.rootdir.set off nis.domainname nis.enable off pcnfsd.enable off pcnfsd.umask 22 raid.reconstruct_speed 4 raid.scrub.enable on raid.timeout 24 rsh.enable on snmp.enable on ssh.enable off telnet.enable on telnet.hosts * timed.enable off timed.log off timed.max_skew 30m timed.proto ntp timed.sched hourly timed.servers vol.copy.throttle 10 wafl.convert_ucode off wafl.create_ucode off wafl.default_nt_user wafl.default_unix_user pcuser wafl.maxdirsize 10240 wafl.nt_admin_priv_map_to_root on wafl.root_only_chown on wafl.wcc_minutes_valid 20 netapp1>
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