OS=FreeNAS 8.3.0 p1
I just wanted to comment on a little file server I tossed together and what I noticed with CIFS (Samba).
Hardware:
HP Proliant N40L Microserver
16GB DDR3 ECC RAM
Intel EXPI9301CT NIC
LSI 9211-4i HBA
3 WD Red 2TB SATA Drives (ZFS Mirror X 3)
APC BE450G UPS
UPS works flawlessly set set to initiate shutdown after 60 seconds, verified sane shutdown.
System runs wonderfully in general.
The biggest issue I had was slow CIFS file transfers during testing and i read through a lot of others having similar issues. Long story short. I was getting 50-60MB/s writes, stalls, etc. I used autotune, played with AIO, nothing seemed to make it better. I finally remembered on my desktop.......... Kaspersky Internet Security. DOH! I turned off Kaspersky and immediately my writes hit 102MB/s before averaging 80+MB/s for a 50GB file. Small files seemed fine too. This is just very rudimentary testing but you get the idea. I read elsewhere that the CPU in this server couldn't push more than 50MB/s and I just didn't believe that. So, remember to look at your desktop as well and not make a silly mistake as did I.
Nice little server BTW.
Squareguy
I just wanted to comment on a little file server I tossed together and what I noticed with CIFS (Samba).
Hardware:
HP Proliant N40L Microserver
16GB DDR3 ECC RAM
Intel EXPI9301CT NIC
LSI 9211-4i HBA
3 WD Red 2TB SATA Drives (ZFS Mirror X 3)
APC BE450G UPS
UPS works flawlessly set set to initiate shutdown after 60 seconds, verified sane shutdown.
System runs wonderfully in general.
The biggest issue I had was slow CIFS file transfers during testing and i read through a lot of others having similar issues. Long story short. I was getting 50-60MB/s writes, stalls, etc. I used autotune, played with AIO, nothing seemed to make it better. I finally remembered on my desktop.......... Kaspersky Internet Security. DOH! I turned off Kaspersky and immediately my writes hit 102MB/s before averaging 80+MB/s for a 50GB file. Small files seemed fine too. This is just very rudimentary testing but you get the idea. I read elsewhere that the CPU in this server couldn't push more than 50MB/s and I just didn't believe that. So, remember to look at your desktop as well and not make a silly mistake as did I.
Nice little server BTW.
Squareguy