Hello,
We have a application written on a access database (Yes, we are looking to replace the database, but it will take a while.) which works rather poor at the moment, we used to have this database on a novell OES machine and there the performance was bareable. The access database resides on a netapp cifs volume now. Since this migration the performance is judged as poor at best by the users.
During a Wireshark network sniff, the long waiting times always come back to the following SMB Sequence:
Time Operation
0.00 NT Create AndX Request, Path:\path\to\our\database.ldb
0.10 microsoft-ds ACK on the previous comand.
1.03 NT Create andX Response: FID:0x0000, Error: Status_Shareing_Violation
These operations take almost 1 second. And on some screens you open you have 4 operations like this. So the user has to wait almost 5 seconds to switch screens.
The .ldb however always has a lot of locks: at the moment every user has 36 locks on the file with 12 users.
- The netapp is busy but not overloaded (CPU under the 10%, cache time: around 30 minutes and disk utilisations around the 20%)
- The application used to work desent on a novell server, so i can get little support from the application engineer.
The netapp is a fas3020 in a metrocluster solution with ontap version 7.2.4 running on it.
Any thoughts on troubleshooting this issue?