Network and Storage Protocols

timeout when opening large files

mdvillanueva
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Hi Experts,

We have SAS programmers and they reported that sometimes when they open their SAS files (SAS7BDAT),  they get timeout error. Is there any thing I can check or tweak in our CIFS configuration to find out if there is something that wrong that needs fixing?

Thanks,

Maico

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scottgelb
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There are some tuning options listed in the appendix of this TR  http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3869.html  ... if you can enable smb2

You can also search for cifs neg_buf_size tuning in addition to the window size in the above tr and consider also opening a performance case (most the options require a restart of cifs after changing).  It could be other latency issues separate from cifs that a perfstat could show.

mdvillanueva
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Thanks Scott,

I will look at the TR.

Other than what the users are reporting, there are no noticeable latency issues reported by the Performance Advisor.

SUDHEER_H21
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The timeout error might be because of the value set to the "cifs.idle_timeout" option which is in generally mentioned in seconds. This time in seconds terminates an idle session (no files open). Let me know if this works out or not.

Cheers.

mdvillanueva
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HI Sudheer,

Thanks for the suggestion. Although the issue is happening when they are actually trying to open a large files.

Maico

pascalduk
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Have you checked if there are antivirus scanners on either the clients or connected to the filer?

mdvillanueva
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We do have Scan Engine configured. But i already add the saa mms to eclusions.

Thanks!

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