I am wondering why cp command of 72GB data from linux server to a mounted CIFS (windows) share works too slow? It takes more then 3 hours already.
Is the any way to see where the gap, bottleneck?
P.S.
Both VM on XenServer 5.5 with 1GB NIC
Linux VM RHEL5.5; 4GB RAM; 4 CPU; 8GB SWAP
Windows VM Windows Server2008; 4GB RAM; 2 CPU
Are the two machines on the same ip subnet? – YES
What is the file structure like (lots of small files?) – YES
User mail boxes, /etc, /var/log what is the disk subsystem that these vm's are using? – VM are seating on iSCSI virtual disk storage which is SAN with iSCSI interface was formated with LVM support by itself.
dd if=/dev/zero of=file.txt bs=1024k count=5000 – took about 5 minutes to create and copied it in a secs.
Looks like I have some problems with network interfaces.
Best Answer
are the two machines on the same ip subnet?
what is the file structure like (lots of small files?)
what is the disk subsystem that these vm's are using?
if it is taking 3 hours then you are at about 7MB / per second
can you make a 1gb file and copy it to another part of the same disk on each of the vm's?
on windows you can create a 1gb file with the following command :
on linux :
this could tell you if it is the underlying disk system or the network config.