Pat Breen wrote:
Adam McDougall wrote:
Goal: reduce the impact of greedy clients (primarily known ones, but hopefully unexpected ones too) on the response time of the rest of the filer's clients. I don't care if the CIFS software share must accept
Adam -
I'd suggest taking a look at FlexShare (available since 7.2.x at no additional cost) which has been developed for exactly this problem.
It ONLY kicks in when there is contention of resources (eg. CPU, memory)
Prioritise the NFS workloads to high, and either leave the CIFS workload as is or set to low.
Regards,
Pat
As I understand it, FlexShare is the same thing as na_priority which I already tried with no obvious results. I wondered if I might need to restart CIFS or anything else to activate the changes; I "enabled" priority and set some priorities. "win" is the software share I spoke of.
priority show volume
Volume Priority Relative Sys Priority Service Priority (vs User) home on High Low mail on VeryHigh Low scratch on VeryLow Low sites on High Low win on VeryLow Medium