On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: > I've got a lot of video files on a zfs/cifs fileserver running SXCE. A > little while ago the dual onboard NICs died and I had to replace them with a > PCI 10/100 NIC. The system was fine for a couple of weeks but now the > performance when viewing a video file from the cifs share is appauling. Videos > stop and jerk with audio distortion. > > I have tried this from several client machines so I'm pretty certain it lies > with the server but I'm unsure of the next step to find out the source of > the problem.
Other people on this list who experienced the exact same problem ultimately determined that the problem was with the network card. I recall that Intel NICs were the recommended solution. Note that 100MBit is now considered to be a slow link and PCI is also considered to be slow. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
