Tom, Check out the following metalink note: "Mount Options for Oracle files when used with NAS devices [ID 359515.1]". noac is not listed in the required mount options. The network discards is something that should not happen. Can you post all the mount options that ou are using, your kernel options and some more information about your network config? Also check out the blog from Kevin Closson (kevinclosson.wordpress.com), it has lots of information about running Oracle over NFS. regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer ________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Roach [troach@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 April 2010 20:12 To: Oracle Discussion List Subject: Oracle over NFS Hi, We are currently on Oracle RAC 10.2.0.4 (4 nodes) on Linux x86_64 RHEL 5.3. We are currently using block devices on Hitachi but have invested in a NetApp. Our 2 options are NFS (which the Unix admin favors) and Block devices over Fiber Channel. In trying the various NFS option, we have come across 2 mount options that Oracle must use. (noac and actimeo=0). With noac, the performance is horrible (about 10 MB/s) and with actimeo=0 we get about 240 MB/s which is the maximum bandwidth the interface will support (3 - 1Gbps Nics on the NetApp side). With the actimeo=0, we get better performance but see a large amount of network discards. He has essentially said I am putting it back to noac to get rid of the network discards. I said if the performance goes back to 10 MB/s then we can't move to NFS over NetApp. I wanted to get some insight from the group as I get conflicting information when researching this issue. Does anyone out there have Oracle RAC running over NFS to NetApp and if so, what mount options are you using? Any specific configurations on the NetApp side? Forgot to mention that we are using a single Cisco switch between the NetApp and Oracle servers running with jumbo frames. Thanks! Tom -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l