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Date:      Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:26:26 -0700
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS Performance issue against NetApp
Message-ID:  <C643EE8D-5934-48EA-9305-EE6A07C5C897@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130424093505.0f3e4415@suse3>
References:  <4F9A2AAE-938F-4FF5-A30C-72689D7F1F39@hub.org> <20130424093505.0f3e4415@suse3>

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On 2013-04-24, at 24:35 , Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> wrote:

> 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?

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=


> 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?

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 ...

> I have to cap RSIZE/WSIZE at 32k to get *any* kind of performance from

'k, what do you mean by cap?  setting it in /etc/fstab?  or using sysctl =
variables?





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