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Subject: Re: NFS Performance issue against NetApp
From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
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Am 24.04.2013 um 18:26 schrieb "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>:

>=20
> On 2013-04-24, at 24:35 , Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> =
wrote:
>=20
>> Am Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:25:56 -0700
>> schrieb "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>:
>>=20
>>>=20
>>> Morning =85
>>>=20
>>>  I'm trying to figure out where performance issues are arising, and
>>> I suspect its a lack of tuning on the FreeBSD side =85=20
>>>=20
>>>  Hardware wise, I have an HP Proliant DL360p Gen8 Server, 16G of
>>> RAM, bge ethernet =85 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. =20
>>=20
>> How did you get bge working on a Gen8 Proliant anyway?
>=20
> Not too painfully =85 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 =85=20=

>=20
>> AFAIK, the stock bge of 9.1 doesn't have support for the bcm-chips in
>> those servers.
>>=20
>> Can you try an Intel NIC?
>=20
> That one could be more difficult, since don't have any of those laying =
about =85 but will definitely try and come up with something, thx ...
>=20
>> I have to cap RSIZE/WSIZE at 32k to get *any* kind of performance =
from
>=20
> 'k, what do you mean by cap?  setting it in /etc/fstab?  or using =
sysctl variables?
>=20
>=20

In the NFS mount options.
I've re-done my tests and it still seems to be a problem.=20


Rainer=