On Nov 10, 12:30pm, Marc Nicholas wrote:
One of my clients is complaining that performance between Solaris 2.5.1 systems (mainly Ultra 1s and 3000s) and an F210 is pretty damn awful. (The 210 is to be used for syslog, so the amount of disk writes isn't *that* high).
I got him to switch to NFS v2 and UDP to get around timeout issues, but performance still sucks.
The entire LAN fabric is full duplex 100baseT switched through Cisco Catalyst 5000s.
Can I ask a dumb question? Is his 2.5.1 box running full duplex 100BT? We experienced the same symptom with an Ultra 2. We also noticed lots of late collisions on the Cisco EtherSwitch 1200 uplink port serving the Ultra. When we switched the port to half duplex, the problem went away.
On a related topic, I spent a fruitless half hour trying to figure out how to configure our Ultra to do full duplex -- anyone know how to do it?
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