> I didn't cross post the following, it was sent only to the cifs discuss list: > nge. Onboard nvidia nforce 570 Ultra MCP onboard gigabit nic for the Asus > M2N-E board. > > nge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0: Using FIXED interrupt type > mac: [ID 469746 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0 registered > mac: [ID 435574 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0 link up, 100 Mbps, full duplex > > This is actually the first time I checked the nic. Looks like ndd reports it > as being in 100Mbps. Not gigabit. I'm not sure what that's all about. > Although I did just find out that dladm replaces ndd. ... >
If your switch is gigabit as well there may have been some problems with speed negotiation. I actually had SXDE running on the same motherboard a while ago and had some problems with the stock nge driver - I eventually installed an older Intel 100Mb NIC and got much better bulk transfer performance from it. This may have been addressed by now though. > -end repost- > > As for the other protocols, I have stats for those: > FTP from WinXP to Solaris ZFS > Read: 11MiB/s > Write: 4.7MiB/s, spiking to 6.0MiB/s > > SFTP from WinXP to Solaris ZFS > Read: 500KiB/s > Write: 1.9MiB/s (odd, no fluctuation in speed, and I'm sure this is a windows > thing as I had the same dismal performance when attempting SFTP to a linux > box) > > FTP from Linux to Solaris > Read: 2.6MiB/s > Write: 4.4MiB/s > > SFTP from Linux to Solaris > Read: 2.6MiB/s > Write: 4.6MiB/s > > Those just from single file transfers. It's not like I did 10 tests. > Jose Borrego noted the following in the cifs discuss list: > I should put back a fix related to performance this week CR 6686647. I > don't know if it's related to what you are experiencing but the > performance boost is quite significant. It wouldn't explain the SFTP performance from XP to Solaris though. Unless the processing overhead for encrypted protocols is too much for your Windows box, I think your problem lies elsewhere than in the type of filesystem. Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
