What do your Solaris systems look like? There are a number of things that can be done to get Sun systems, and especially their NICs, to coexist with Filers.
I'm currently having a lot of fun getting some temperamental SBUS Gigabit NICs to perform up to spec (same problem - writes take FOREVER)
Michael
edward valencia <edjv@corp.earthlink.net> Sent by: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
02/13/02 05:14 AM
To: "toasters@mathworks.com" <toasters@mathworks.com>
cc:
Subject: Slow writes
Hi all,
I hope that someone has gone through this as I have been trying to
figure this out and its making me go nuts. On our solaris(2.8, 2.6) we
usually do small file writes, our users do cvs checkouts to thier home
directories and compile software that they are working on in that
directory also. The problems is not the reads but the writes, I have
changed the client machines to nfs3/tcp with rsize and wsize or 32k. The
avg time todo a cvs checkout has been about 24 seconds, if this is done
to local disk we are seeing the avg. of 4 seconds. The size of the
module they are checking out is 4mb, this is what I have been doing
tests with, but other cvs modules are also slow while being written to
the nfs mount home directory. The filers also have the nfs.tcp.xfersize
of 32k. Here are the configs of the filer:
F760 NetApp Release 6.0.1R3: Fri Feb 16 02:42:49 PST 2001
nfs.mount_rootonly on
nfs.per_client_stats.enable off
nfs.tcp.enable on
nfs.tcp.xfersize 32768
nfs.udp.xfersize 8192
nfs.v2.df_2gb_lim off
nfs.v3.enable on
nfs.webnfs.enable off
nfs.webnfs.rootdir XXX
nfs.webnfs.rootdir.set off