Milhouse
Guru
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2011
- Messages
- 564
Hold on... just looked at your dd commands again. Seriously, do you understand what you are doing here? You are reading from one file and writing to another, causing significant IO that will give you unreliable performance results.
Check your performance with these two commands:
As things stand, your motherboard and CPU should be fine for FreeNAS, no need to change them. Adding more memory and enabling read_prefetch will improve your read performance.
Check your performance with these two commands:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/RAID-Z/test/testfile.txt bs=1M count=4000 dd if=/mnt/RAID-Z/test/testfile.txt of=/dev/null bs=1M count=4000
As things stand, your motherboard and CPU should be fine for FreeNAS, no need to change them. Adding more memory and enabling read_prefetch will improve your read performance.