NFS Performance issue against NetApp

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 24.04.2013 um 18:26 schrieb "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org>:

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> On 2013-04-24, at 24:35 , Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
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>> Am Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:25:56 -0700
>> schrieb "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org>:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Morning …
>>> 
>>>  I'm trying to figure out where performance issues are arising, and
>>> I suspect its a lack of tuning on the FreeBSD side … 
>>> 
>>>  Hardware wise, I have an HP Proliant DL360p Gen8 Server, 16G of
>>> RAM, bge ethernet … I have two ethernet ports in use, one used as a
>>> private backend for the NFS filer, the other for the public IP front
>>> end.  
>> 
>> How did you get bge working on a Gen8 Proliant anyway?
> 
> Not too painfully … 9.1-RELEASE didn't work, but I tar'd up and put onto a usb stick -STABLE, and installed that, and its been fine since … 
> 
>> AFAIK, the stock bge of 9.1 doesn't have support for the bcm-chips in
>> those servers.
>> 
>> Can you try an Intel NIC?
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> That one could be more difficult, since don't have any of those laying about … but will definitely try and come up with something, thx ...
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>> I have to cap RSIZE/WSIZE at 32k to get *any* kind of performance from
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> 'k, what do you mean by cap?  setting it in /etc/fstab?  or using sysctl variables?
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In the NFS mount options.
I've re-done my tests and it still seems to be a problem. 


Rainer