"ZANGA, Michael, GCM" wrote:
Does anyone have any idea what the option cifs.max_mpx does. On a whitepaper from NetApp the option is referenced to be changed to 1124. I presently have it set at 32 and it was hidden.
I am reluctant to make the change without knowing what it does.
It is a setting that allows you to increase the netapp equivalent of the MaxMpxCt in the NT server registry. This allows more simultaneous SMB connections. We used it when we ran into a problem with NT terminal servers having so many connections to the filer that the default MaxMpxCt of 50 was exceeded. We set it to 256 (the max) and it all worked very nicely. In the end a different solution was found and implemented by our NT team. But in our testing of solutions the cifs.max_mpx worked fine - we just weren't ready to move to becks at the time because of unrelated issues.
Graham