Performance Configuration

Minimum Read Ahead
Update Access Time
TCP Timewait Enabled

Minimum Read Ahead

Configures the filer to perform minimal read ahead. By default, the option is disabled and the filer does aggressive read ahead.

Update Access Time

Prevents the update of the access time (atime) on an inode when a file is read. This option prevents inode updates from contending with reads from other files. Use this option only on a filer with extremely high read traffic (for example, on a news server used by an Internet access provider or on a filer used mainly as an HTTP server).

TCP Timewait Enabled

Allows the filer to drop an HTTP connection one minute after it has been closed by the client. When option is not enabled, the connection is not dropped, and resources are consumed until the connection times out.

NetApp Filer Configuration Help - 28 AUG 1997