I'm using opensolaris 101b under vmware 5.5, with a host OS of winXP.

 

I'm getting horrible network performance using the vmxnet driver version
5.5.8 build 108000, and the performance seems to fluctuate quite a bit.

 

This came to light as I was trying to use solaris to access and server up
CIFS filesystems. My benchmark that I have trying to use is:

.       Mount a volume on from the host OS (mount -F smbfs)

.       Try to write a file to the host os (cat /dev/zero > x.out).

 

I get sometimes a large burst (16 mb/sec), and sometimes a trickle with
occasional bursts but it almost always peters out after a bit.

 

On the flip side I've tried sharing volumes from Solaris and then reading
from either XP or vista machines and I may get some (large files), but
eventually I get "network device not available".

 

Any ideas how to remedy this or troubleshoot?

 

Thanks,

 

Karl

 

 

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