[ofw] SMB/CIFS over SDP or alternative fileserver
Sebastian Schmitzdorff
sebastian.schmitzdorff at hamburgnet.de
Thu Mar 15 07:54:36 PDT 2007
indeed, a 32bit application works on 64bit windows, testing with the
netio tcp/ip
benchmark and SDP I have a remarkable performance gain.
Now it's time to find the appropriate Fileserver and Client Applications.
I have not found a NFS client/server suite so far that could make use of
SDP.
Any recommendations for alternative filerservers are welcome :)
Are there already ways to determine that an applications makes use of SDP?
thank you
sebastian
Benchmark results
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SDP DISABLED:
C:\netio126\bin>win32-i386.exe -t 10.10.0.1
NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel
TCP connection established.
Packet size 1k bytes: 82786 KByte/s Tx, 73341 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 2k bytes: 92634 KByte/s Tx, 67307 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 4k bytes: 125865 KByte/s Tx, 92362 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 8k bytes: 138865 KByte/s Tx, 107300 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes: 149488 KByte/s Tx, 116277 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes: 162069 KByte/s Tx, 126191 KByte/s Rx.
Done.
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SDP ENABLED:
net start sdp
C:\netio126\bin>SdpConnect.exe -t 10.10.0.1
NETIO - Network Throughput Benchmark, Version 1.26
(C) 1997-2005 Kai Uwe Rommel
TCP connection established.
Packet size 1k bytes: 307508 KByte/s Tx, 221857 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 2k bytes: 466039 KByte/s Tx, 360274 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 4k bytes: 553431 KByte/s Tx, 521160 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 8k bytes: 553154 KByte/s Tx, 559420 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 16k bytes: 552407 KByte/s Tx, 559080 KByte/s Rx.
Packet size 32k bytes: 557977 KByte/s Tx, 571149 KByte/s Rx.
Done.
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Tzachi Dar schrieb:
> The new version of SDP that should be available soon will allow 32 bit
> applications to run on 64 bit systems as well.
>
> Thanks
> Tzachi
>
> On 3/14/07, *Sebastian Schmitzdorff*
> <sebastian.schmitzdorff at hamburgnet.de
> <mailto:sebastian.schmitzdorff at hamburgnet.de>> wrote:
>
> Hi Tzachi,
>
> I was considering an FTP Server at first, but it is not the right tool
> for the job.
> The Situation is the following. It is a multimedia/video editing
> company.
> They need to access raw HDTV material from their windows workstations
> for editing
> and playback. So FTP is not an option in this case because FTP
> requires
> a full download to local memory.
>
> SMB/CIFS, NFS and maybe similar protocols seem to be the only options
> for real time playback and editing.
>
> Today I have tried tweaking the Windows XP TCP/IP settings by setting
> the Tcp1323Opts option
> and raising the TcpWindowSize to 512k. There was a little bandwidth
> increase but still not enough.
> If I am not mistaken using IPoIB on windows will not bring me near my
> performance expectations(300MB/s) at the moment.
>
> I will start trying the NFS(nfsaxe) over the SDP provider from
> Mellanox
> today.
> My biggest concern at the moment is that the Server is a 64bit Windows
> XP and the nfsaxe server application
> is a 32bit executable. If I read and understood the SDP Documentation
> correctly you can not use a 32bit application
> with SDP on a 64bit Windows?
>
>
>
>
> thank you
> sebastian
>
>
> So they need to work on parts
>
> Tzachi Dar wrote:
> > Hi, the SDP provider that is provided by mellanox only works for
> user
> > mode applications. The cifs client/servers that come with
> windows are
> > kernel components and therefore can not use it.
> >
> > It seems that nfsaxe client and server are user mode and therefore
> > they should work, but this will have to be checked.
> >
> > Another question that I have is this: Do you realy need to
> access the
> > files as Fileserver? That is, do you need to work on part of the
> > files, or a solution that will copy the files enough? To make this
> > more clear, will it be enough for you to have an FTP client/server
> > working?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Tzachi
> >
> >
> > On 3/13/07, *Sebastian Schmitzdorff*
> > < sebastian.schmitzdorff at hamburgnet.de
> <mailto:sebastian.schmitzdorff at hamburgnet.de>
> > <mailto:sebastian.schmitzdorff at hamburgnet.de
> <mailto:sebastian.schmitzdorff at hamburgnet.de>>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have two Windows XP 32bit Workstations and one Windows XP
> 64bit
> > Server.
> > Both are using 4x mellanox hca's.
> > The Server is supposed to function as a Fileserver and is
> required to
> > deliver High Bandwidth.
> > Around 300MB/s is required.
> >
> > Using IPoIB, measuring with various tools(iperf,netper), the
> machines
> > achieve a poor IP performance,
> > between 90MB/s and 150MB/s.
> >
> > I'm looking for alternative ways to get more bandwidth. SDP
> seems just
> > right for the task.
> > I will look into running a windows based nfs server (nfsaxe)
> and hope
> > that it can be run using SDP.
> > NFS is not my protocol of choice though. Do you know of any
> > alternative
> > Fileserver that can be run via SDP and
> > comparable to SMB/CIFS? Or is it even possible to run SMB/CIFS
> > over SDP?
> >
> >
> > best regards
> > sebastian
> >
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