I have an AIX box that mounts a Windows share across subnets. When I try to copy a 100 MB file to it, it copies around 2 MB/s. If I copy to another Windows share on the same subnet it copies around 12 MB/s. All I have is gigabit networks so I would expect it to go well over 12 MB/s, which is the theoretical limit for a 100 base T network.
I'm testing by watching "topas" output in one window and doing this in another.
Copying across different subnets:
Copying on the same subnet:
Can someone else try this on one of your boxes and see if yours goes any faster? My AIX box is running AIX 7.1 TL1 SP2 and I believe the Windows server is running 2008.
You could check at what speed the adapter is set with netstat -v or entstat -d <ent>. If it is on auto-negotiation, you could try setting it to fixed speed as well as setting the same fixed speed at it's switch port. Maybe it switches speed due to auto-negotiation.
This is on an LPAR behind a VIO server. The VIO server is set to auto-auto and hasn't had any problems. In fact, between two different physical machines, I've seen transfer rates over 100MB/s. I think it is something in the CIFS fileset but I don't have any way to prove it. That is why I was asking for someone else to try it and see if they get similar results.
All I have is gigabit networks so I would expect it to go well over 12 MB/s, which is the theoretical limit for a 100 base T network.
What precisely are you using to bridge your gigabit networks together?
Our small work fileshare suffered chronically low speed even though our cabling and switches were all supposed to be gigabit rated. But one of our cheaper gigabit switches turned out to not be transferring at gigabit speeds even though it negotiated at 1000baseTX-FD. It cheated by spamming "pause" packets whenever network performance threatened to exceed 100baseTX transfer rates. It was a dlink product, of course. When we replaced it, everyone was amazed at the improvement.
I tracked it down by using ethtool to show how many pause packets were happening. I don't know the AIX equivalent but it's something to look for.
I have a Linux laptop that I can plug in to the same switch as my AIX boxes and run the ethtool from it. Do you remember the ethtool command syntax you used and what specifically you looked for?
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