Techniques for Debugging File Protocol Performance Issues

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Author(s)/Presenter(s):

Evgeny Popovich

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Abstract

This talk presents debugging techniques used to identify and solve performance issues in UNIX user-space resource sharing protocol implementation such as the Likewise Storage Services platform. The protocols being tested are SMB1 and SMB2, while the main benchmarks used are FSCT and NetBench. The topics to be covered include analyzing the environment (network, storage subsystem, etc.), solving lock contention problems in multi-threaded daemons, memory allocation analysis, benchmark automation, and others.

Learning Objectives

Understand Likewise Storage Services architecture.
Understand different aspects of debugging file protocol performance issues.
See how existing open source tools can be used to increase performance of a file server.