<div dir="ltr">Peculiar problem, haven't the slightest idea where to start. Need advice!<div><br></div><div style>RHEL5.4 box with an NFS mount point to a NAS storage device into a NAS device with jumbo frames disabled. NAS has a samba share capability.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Users are convinced it's too slow.</div><div style>At least one user is convinced that if he uses smbclient to untar the same tarball, it takes, 2 maybe 3 minutes.</div><div style>(My manual untar attempt of the same tarball has been running for 25 minutes and climbing.)</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>NAS is in a one-volume raid 6 - seven drives. Users not showing much interest in splitting it into multiple volumes.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Network guys are convinced the slowness is because it's behind a 1GB router;</div>
<div style>Not seeing anything that really worries me in /var/log/messages</div><div style>Not seeing any unusual processes in top</div><div style>memory use isn't excessive - not swapping</div><div style><br></div><div style>
network mtu is at 1500 - wouldn't matter, since our switch ports are at 1500 anyway,</div><div style><br></div><div style>My own search attempts coming up dry. Just vaguely related academic material that doesn't even give me a good idea where to start!</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I approach the oracle!</div><div style><br></div><div style>Mike</div></div>