Greetings,<br><br>I&#39;m running 8.1.2P4, 7-mode on some 6290s.  I need to do some snapmirrors to re-balance some disk space.  The -k option to throttle the transfer doesn&#39;t seem to be having any effect.  I&#39;ve tried modifying the placement of the -k but it doesn&#39;t seem to matter.  I also tried to modify it after it was running and it doesn&#39;t seem to help either.  Here is the command I&#39;m running:<br>
<br>snapmirror initialize -S sm15_3 -k 10000 new_sm15_3<br><br> If I&#39;m understanding correctly, this should be allowing 10MB/s.<br><br>The source and destination are on the same file system.  Here is a cut of a sysstat 3 after starting it:<br>
<br> CPU     NFS    CIFS    HTTP     Net   kB/s    Disk   kB/s    Tape   kB/s  Cache<br>                                  in    out    read  write    read  write    age<br><br>73%     598       0       0    2091 349080  338016    271       0      0     7<br>
 71%    1019       0       0    2046 319892  324019  13114       0      0     0s<br> 71%    2800       0       0    3880 330527  343528  17379       0      0     7<br> 69%    1440       0       0    3405 330279  392647  22343       0      0     0s<br>
 87%    1614       0       0    2128 320151  607753 168553       0      0     0s<br> 87%     827       0       0    5652 244701  584436 371689       0      0     0s<br> 91%     897       0       0    4242 344072  680454 386373       0      0     0s<br>
<br>As you can see, the disk read/write counts go way up.  This is causing some noticeable latency in the nfs access for clients.  While I really like the new hardware can pump data around, I need to be able to control it. <br>
<br>What am I doing wrong?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Jeff<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jeff Cleverley<br>Unix Systems Administrator<br>4380 Ziegler Road<br>Fort Collins, Colorado 80525<br>970-288-4611<br>