Slow performance writing to NetApp filer

[Steve Dickson]

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> I just submitted <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391021>
> regarding an odd issue we're having.  Fedora (both 7 and 8) have
> horribly slow performance when writing to our NetApp FAS3020 filer. 
> I've tested on 2 sets of hardware (i386 and x86_64, with tg3 and e1000
> NICs).  No matter what I try, it won't go faster than ~5MB/s.  The same
> hardware running CentOS-5 gets ~50MB/s.  Performance is just fine
> pointing the Fedora boxes at a Panasas filer.
hmm... Would it be possible to post (in the bz) a bzip2 binary network
trace? Something similar to 
    tshark -w /tmp/bz391021 -i <eth?> host <server>
    bzip2 /tmp/bz391021

> 
> Has anybody else run into this?  It seems a rather odd bug to me.
No and Yes this seems very odd since we test all the
time against Netapp filers...

steved.