We did some quick research and "NFS thread" controls don't apply in our situation and can't be set. Or are you referring to the mountlimit value for the devclass?
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Skylar Thompson <skyl...@uw.edu> wrote: > This sounds pretty good to me. If you can, I would boost your NFS thread > count past the number of CPUs that you have, since a lot of NFS is just > waiting for the disks to respond. You still need a thread for that, but it > won't consume much CPU. > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 08:27:27AM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote: > > Very interesting. This supports my idea on how I want to layout the > > new/replacement server. The old server is only 16-threads and certainly > > could not handle dedup (we can't afford any appliances like DD) since it > is > > bucking under the current backups traffic. The new server has 72-threads > as > > well as 100TB internal disk. My idea is to use the fast internal 100TB > > disk for inbound traffic and deduping and use the 200TB NFS/ISILON for > > nextstoragepool (trying to get completely off 3592-tape storage for > onsite > > backups). Plus the DB will be on SSD. > > > > Any thoughts on this configuration? > > > > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Harris, Steven < > > steven.har...@btfinancialgroup.com> wrote: > > > > > Zoltan > > > > > > I have a similar issue TSM 7.1.1.300 AIX -> Data Domain. Have dual > 10Gb > > > links, but can only get ~4000 writes/sec and 120MB/sec throughput. AIX > only > > > supports NFS3, and as others have pointed out in this forum recently, > the > > > stack does not have a good reputation. > > > > > > I'm finding that the heavy NFS load has other knock on effects, e.g. > > > TSMManager keeps reporting the instance offline when it's very busy as > it > > > gets a network error on some of its regular queries, but these work ok > when > > > load is light. Also getting a lot of Severed/reconnected sessions. > > > CPU/IO/Paging are not a problem. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve > > > > > > Steven Harris > > > TSM Admin/Consultant > > > Canberra Australia > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > Of > > > Zoltan Forray > > > Sent: Saturday, 12 May 2018 1:39 AM > > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > > Subject: [ADSM-L] ISILON storage/FILE DEVCLASS performance issues > > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > ISP 7.1.7.300 on RHEL 6 10G connectivity > > > > > > We need some guidance on trying to figure out why ISP/TSM write > perform to > > > ISILON storage (via FILE DEVCLASS) is so horrible. > > > > > > We recently attached 200TB of ISILON storage to this server so we could > > > empty the 36TB of onboard disk drives to move this server to new > hardware. > > > > > > However, per my OS and SAN folks, we are only seeing 1Gbs level of data > > > movement from the ISP server. Doing a regular file copy to this same > > > storage peaks at 10Gbs speeds. > > > > > > So what, if anything, are we doing wrong when it comes to configuring > the > > > storage for ISP to use? Are there some secret > controls/settings/options to > > > tell it to use the storage at max-speeds? > > > > > > We tried changing the Est/Max capacity thinking larger files would > reduce > > > the overhead of allocating new pieces constantly. Changed the Mount > Limit > > > to a bigger number. Nothing has helped. > > > > > > Only thing uses the storage right now is migrations from the original > disk > > > stgpool. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Zoltan Forray* > > > Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. 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