SUMMARY: Weird NFS performance problems on solaris 8 and netapp

From: McEwan, Ryan (RMcEwan_at_netopia.com)
Date: 09/29/04

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    To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:27:46 -0700
    
    

    Many thanks to those that replied with suggestions. It turns out to be a
    bug in the NetApp software version that I am running.
     
    The Solaris 9 machine that worked great was reverse dns'ed. The Solaris 8
    machines were not. Since they were not reverse dns'ed the netapp was
    failing with a gethostbyaddr call and thus causing the slowness. The
    solaris 8 and 9 differences caused me to go down the wrong path, but
    eventually truth prevailed.
     
    The work around is to reverse dns the servers or add them to /etc/hosts file
    on the filer itself. They have also fixed something to prevent this in a
    later release of the software.
     
    Once again,
     
    many thanks
     
    Ryan

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    From: McEwan, Ryan
    Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:24 PM
    To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
    Subject: Weird NFS performance problems on solaris 8 and netapp

    I recently installed 2 Sun V210 servers (Solaris 8 HW4 update) with 1 week
    old patch recommended cluster. I am noticing painfully slow nfs performance
    to a volume mounted to a NetApp filer. When I try to access the same netapp
    volume from a Solaris 9 machine (Sun 220R with Solaris 9 U7 and 1 week old
    patch cluster) I see great performance.
     
    Where am I going wrong or what can I begin to check?
     
    I have hard coded the /dev/bge0 settings and cisco switch to match as
    follows
     
    ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_1000fdx_cap 0
    ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_1000hdx_cap 0
    ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_100fdx_cap 1
    ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_100hdx_cap 0
    ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_10fdx_cap 0
    ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_10hdx_cap 0
    ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_autoneg_cap 0
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