Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan
Ryan -
This may help:
http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-yose...
Anthony Bar 650.207.5368tel:650.207.5368 tbar@berkcom.commailto:tbar@berkcom.com Berkeley Communications www.berkcom.comhttp://www.berkcom.com/
On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Ryan Pugatch <rpug@lp0.orgmailto:rpug@lp0.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.netmailto:Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
I don't think we would want to disable spotlight across the board. It is useful in some cases.
Thanks, Ryan
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 04:03 PM, Tony Bar wrote:
Ryan -
This may help:
http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-yose...
Anthony Bar 650.207.5368 tbar@berkcom.com
Berkeley Communications
www.berkcom.com[1]
On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@lp0.org wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
Links:
Ryan -
You can disable spotlight on a per-filesystem basis, see the bottom of the link for details.
Anthony Bar 650.207.5368tel:650.207.5368 tbar@berkcom.commailto:tbar@berkcom.com Berkeley Communications www.berkcom.comhttp://www.berkcom.com/
From: Ryan Pugatch [mailto:rpug@lp0.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 2:19 PM To: Tony Bar Cc: Toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: CIFS on Mac
I don't think we would want to disable spotlight across the board. It is useful in some cases.
Thanks, Ryan
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 04:03 PM, Tony Bar wrote: Ryan -
This may help:
http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-yose...
Anthony Bar 650.207.5368tel:650.207.5368 tbar@berkcom.commailto:tbar@berkcom.com Berkeley Communications www.berkcom.comhttp://www.berkcom.com/
On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Ryan Pugatch <rpug@lp0.orgmailto:rpug@lp0.org> wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.netmailto:Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
Actually, to Andre's point, spotlight doesn't work on CIFS, only AFP.
In talking with one of our desktop team folks, the specific issue isn't due to indexing (though that is an issue, not having it..) but specifically getting directory listings on the CIFS share from OS X is very slow. Windows users do not have that problem.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 05:22 PM, Tony Bar wrote:
Ryan –
You can disable spotlight on a per-filesystem basis, see the bottom of the link for details.
*Anthony Bar*
650.207.5368
tbar@berkcom.com
*Berkeley Communications*
www.berkcom.com[1]
*From:* Ryan Pugatch [mailto:rpug@lp0.org]
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 4, 2015 2:19 PM *To:* Tony Bar *Cc:* Toasters@teaparty.net *Subject:* Re: CIFS on Mac
I don't think we would want to disable spotlight across the board. It is useful in some cases.
Thanks,
Ryan
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 04:03 PM, Tony Bar wrote:
Ryan -
This may help:
http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-yose...
Anthony Bar
650.207.5368
tbar@berkcom.com Berkeley Communications
www.berkcom.com[2]
On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@lp0.org wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating,
and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with
Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant
from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks,
Ryan
Toasters mailing list
Toasters@teaparty.net
Links:
On non Netapp CIFS shares, I see no performance issues on OSX. They are all Samba based though. I have not tried a Netapp CIFS share though.
I don't really think Spotlight is an issue on CIFS.
Tom
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 4, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Ryan Pugatch rpug@lp0.org wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
Have you tested NFS? If no license worth getting a 90-day key from your NetApp rep/se and setup a usermap unix to windows and nfs mount the ntfs volume.
-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Pugatch Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 1:00 PM To: Toasters@teaparty.net Subject: CIFS on Mac
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
We haven't.. NFS doesn't tend to be as user friendly. Mostly non-technical users are accessing the file shares.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 04:18 PM, Gelb, Scott wrote:
Have you tested NFS? If no license worth getting a 90-day key from your NetApp rep/se and setup a usermap unix to windows and nfs mount the ntfs volume.
-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Pugatch Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 1:00 PM To: Toasters@teaparty.net Subject: CIFS on Mac
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 04:00:13PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan
What sort of issues are you encountering? We do CIFS shares to Macs here and haven't had complaints. Still 7-mode. Don't believe we have any fancy settings (SMBv2 enabled, larger TCP window size, etc.)
Ray
My experience with CIFS on Mac was constant frustration, mostly due to issues with their implementation of SMB. Apparently, it is less bad if you force SMB1.0 on everything. That said, I wasn't using Netapp CIFS shares.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Ray Van Dolson rvandolson@esri.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 04:00:13PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan
What sort of issues are you encountering? We do CIFS shares to Macs here and haven't had complaints. Still 7-mode. Don't believe we have any fancy settings (SMBv2 enabled, larger TCP window size, etc.)
Ray _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
I had a similar issue after converting a windows file share used by a hand full of mac users to an 8.1.x 7m share. Unfortunately, I do not know the fix as the desktop team fixed it on the client side. I want to say it was either related to an index or cache setting.
--Jordan
From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Basil Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 4:46 PM To: Ray Van Dolson Cc: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: CIFS on Mac
My experience with CIFS on Mac was constant frustration, mostly due to issues with their implementation of SMB. Apparently, it is less bad if you force SMB1.0 on everything. That said, I wasn't using Netapp CIFS shares.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.commailto:rvandolson@esri.com> wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 04:00:13PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
Hi all,
Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating, and in some cases downright unusable.
It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
Have any of you found how to deal with this?
Thanks, Ryan
What sort of issues are you encountering? We do CIFS shares to Macs here and haven't had complaints. Still 7-mode. Don't believe we have any fancy settings (SMBv2 enabled, larger TCP window size, etc.)
Ray _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.netmailto:Toasters@teaparty.net http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
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