Notes on Performance, Benchmarks and Cache.

paleoN

Wizard
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It works out to some crazy number:
Write: 1548.58 MB/s
Read: 2215.21 MB/s
And my results:
Code:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/tank/tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 95.500761 secs (1124328029 bytes/sec)


# dd of=/dev/null if=/mnt/tank/tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 113.580486 secs (945357659 bytes/sec)
Of course this is too good to be true:) which means it is! You have compression enable for your volume. Zeros are highly compressible.;) Turn off compression for the volume when benchmarking. I checked and this isn't mentioned in post #1 or anywhere on the first page.

For my true results see [post=26680]above[/post].
 

ProtoSD

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You have compression enable for your volume. Zeros are highly compressible.;) Turn off compression for the volume when benchmarking. I checked and this isn't mentioned in post #1 or anywhere on the first page.

For my true results see [post=26680]above[/post].

PaleoN,

Good catch, it's true, that isn't mentioned but it definitely makes a difference / causes inaccurate results.
 

geister

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Messages
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Hello everyone,

Thank you for the compression heads up.

Now the numbers are more realistic. However, I am still very happy with it.

Write: 247.58 MB/s
Read: 328.11 MB/s

[root@freenas] ~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/RaidZ/tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 413.592788 secs (259613285 bytes/sec)


[root@freenas] ~# dd if=/mnt/RaidZ/tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 312.083491 secs (344055952 bytes/sec)
 

Sir.Robin

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My result:

[root@BATNAS] ~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/vol01/tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 2511.947579 secs (42745391 bytes/sec)

[root@BATNAS] ~# dd if=/mnt/vol01/tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 459.018764 secs (233921118 bytes/sec)




Shaite? :-|

Specs:
Asus M5A88-M (BIOS 1101)
AMD FX-4100
2x4GB ECC
Onboard Realtek NIC
Raidz2 with 6x Seagate 7200.9 500GB (ACHI)

Shouldn't i be seeing better write performance than this?
 

anth

Dabbler
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Mar 27, 2012
Messages
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i3-2120T
ASRock Z77 Pro4-M
2x4GB RAM
8x 2TB WD Greens (RAID10)

Code:
[root@freenas /mnt/data]# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k         
51200+0 records in                                                              
51200+0 records out                                                             
107374182400 bytes transferred in 376.334903 secs (285315504 bytes/sec)


Code:
[root@freenas /mnt/data]# dd if=tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k         
51200+0 records in                                                              
51200+0 records out                                                             
107374182400 bytes transferred in 237.996542 secs (451158582 bytes/sec)


More than I was expecting, very happy :)
 

BeelzebubUK

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Found this thread when looking for solutions to my slow Read/Write issues so may as well post my results.

HP Microserver N40L
2x4GB Kingston non-ecc RAM
6x Samsung F3 1TB running ZFS1

Code:
[louis@freenas /mnt]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/RAIDZFS1/tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 486.570614 secs (220675436 bytes/sec)



Code:
[louis@freenas /mnt]$ dd if=/mnt/RAIDZFS1/tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 271.686132 secs (395214072 bytes/sec)
[louis@freenas /mnt]$


So it certainly doesn't look like my drives are to blame in any of this which is good news.
 

Joshua Parker Ruehlig

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SERVER
FreeNAS 8.2 64bit
CPU=e-350 RAM=16GB
zpool = 10x2TB Samsung F4EG in RAIDZ2 + 80GB Intel X25-M G2 as L2ARC

Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 550.616052 secs (195007360 bytes/sec)


Code:
dd if=tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 375.904980 secs (285641819 bytes/sec)
 
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HP ProLiant Microserver N36L
2x4GB non-ECC RAM
4x 2TB WD20EARX (ZFS, drive 1+2 mirrored and extended by 3+4, also mirrored; no RAIDZ, compression off for the volume using to test)

Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 587.367228 secs (182805879 bytes/sec)


Code:
dd if=/mnt/datavol/backups//testfile of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 311.590557 secs (344600246 bytes/sec)


Not sure if this is as fast as it should/could be, but it works.
 

rockymadden

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Results

Eval of 8.0.4-p3-x64 (may go openindiana route):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 173.613625 secs (618466335 bytes/sec)

dd if=/mnt/test/tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 172.116140 secs (623847260 bytes/sec)

Xeon E3-1230 V2 CPU
32GB 1600 DDR3 Unbuffered ECC RAM
8x 6000HLHX WD Velociraptor in RAIDZ2
X9SCM-F motherboard
LSI 9211-8i as HBA

Compression is off.
 

Proger

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Messages
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AsRock H77-Pro4M
Pentium G630
16Gb 1033 DDR3
6x 3Tb SATA 6Gb/s Seagate Barracuda (ST3000DM001) in RAIDZ1 on onboard SATA
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p4 (FREENAS.amd64)

Code:
[root@freenas] ~# zpool status
  pool: Seagate3x6
 state: ONLINE
  scan: none requested
config:
        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKS                    UM
        Seagate3x6                                      ONLINE       0     0                         0
          raidz1-0                                      ONLINE       0     0                         0
            gptid/ec5ebcb7-1e92-11e2-a6bc-001b21c40121  ONLINE       0     0                         0
            gptid/ecd24ca1-1e92-11e2-a6bc-001b21c40121  ONLINE       0     0                         0
            gptid/ed4432cf-1e92-11e2-a6bc-001b21c40121  ONLINE       0     0                         0
            gptid/edbb8125-1e92-11e2-a6bc-001b21c40121  ONLINE       0     0                         0
            gptid/ee32a680-1e92-11e2-a6bc-001b21c40121  ONLINE       0     0                         0
            gptid/eeab5ec1-1e92-11e2-a6bc-001b21c40121  ONLINE       0     0                         0
errors: No known data errors

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/Seagate3x6/ddtestfile bs=512k count=40000
20971520000 bytes transferred in 37.906312 secs (553246119 bytes/sec) - 527 MB/s
dd of=/dev/null if=/mnt/Seagate3x6/ddtestfile bs=512k count=40000
20971520000 bytes transferred in 28.820437 secs (727661417 bytes/sec) - 693 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/Seagate3x6/ddtestfile bs=2M count=10000
20971520000 bytes transferred in 35.709053 secs (587288610 bytes/sec) - 560 MB/s
dd of=/dev/null if=/mnt/Seagate3x6/ddtestfile bs=2M count=10000
20971520000 bytes transferred in 24.212800 secs (866133614 bytes/sec) - 826 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/Seagate3x6/ddtestfile bs=16M count=1250
20971520000 bytes transferred in 35.316361 secs (593818822 bytes/sec) - 566 MB/s
dd of=/dev/null if=/mnt/Seagate3x6/ddtestfile bs=16M count=1250
20971520000 bytes transferred in 24.921361 secs (841507814 bytes/sec) - 802 MB/s



and i look for CPU Intel Pentium G2120 - its faster, has lower TDP and supports PC3-12800 (as my RAM), against of G630 (only supports PC3-8500)

ps sorry for my english
 

Tysken

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Messages
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Build FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x64 (r12701M)
Platform Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 32178MB

80% full 6x2TB WD EARX in raidz2

[root@freenas] /mnt/vol1# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 469.126297 secs (228881184 bytes/sec)

[root@freenas] /mnt/vol1# dd if=tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 398.970611 secs (269128050 bytes/sec)


Empty 6x2TB WD EARX in raidz2

[root@freenas] /mnt/vol2# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 395.771294 secs (271303614 bytes/sec)

[root@freenas] /mnt/vol2# dd if=tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 344.433226 secs (311741651 bytes/sec)


And both together 12x2TB WD EARX in 2x raidz2

[root@freenas] /mnt/vol1# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 277.282561 secs (387237416 bytes/sec)

[root@freenas] /mnt/vol1# dd if=tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 187.722584 secs (571983297 bytes/sec)
 

purduephotog

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Messages
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Core2duo 2ghz
8gb ram
Perc 5i with 256mb cache
8x wd 2 tb green drives.

Write:
107374182400 bytes in 786.514 seconds. 130 mb/s.

Read:
107374182400 bytes in 311.378 seconds. 328.9 mb/s

~160 watts idle
--------------------
Core2duo 2ghz
8gb ram
Perc 6i with xxmb cache
8x wd 2 tb green drives.

Write:
107374182400 bytes transferred in 524.558 secs (204694397 bytes/sec) = 195mb/sec

Read
107374182400 bytes transferred in 276.747 secs (387986160 bytes/sec) = 370mb/sec

~160 watts idle
--------------------

BIOSTAR NM70I-847 Intel Celeron 847 1.1GHz 2C/2T BGA1023 Intel NM70 Mini ITX
8gb DDR3 ram
Perc 6i with xxmb cache
8x wd 2 tb green drives. (Same PSU, configuration as above)

Write:
107374182400 bytes transferred in 324.737984 secs (330648670 bytes/sec) = 315.33 mb/sec

Read
107374182400 bytes transferred in 245.907699 secs (436644248 bytes/sec) = 416.41mb/sec

~78 watts idle, no drive spin down (haven't been able to get that working yet)
~112 watts when running command speed test command.
~150 watts peak on boot

--------------------
-note reduced ram to 2x sticks of 1gb DDR3, cheap memory.
BIOSTAR NM70I-847 Intel Celeron 847 1.1GHz 2C/2T BGA1023 Intel NM70 Mini ITX
2gb DDR3 ram
Perc 6i with xxmb cache
8x wd 2 tb green drives. (Same PSU, configuration as above)

Write:
107374182400 bytes transferred in 340.631518 secs (315220926 bytes/sec) = 300.6 mb/sec

Read
107374182400 bytes transferred in 419.613282 secs (255888426 bytes/sec) = 244.0 mb/sec (yes, I ran that benchmark 3x)

~73 watts idle, no drive spin down

--------------------
-note increased ram to 2x sticks of 8gb DDR3, expensive low profile (16gb total)
BIOSTAR NM70I-847 Intel Celeron 847 1.1GHz 2C/2T BGA1023 Intel NM70 Mini ITX
16gb DDR3 ram
Perc 6i with xxmb cache
8x wd 2 tb green drives. (Same PSU, configuration as above)

Write:
107374182400 bytes transferred in 351.910831 secs (305117584 bytes/sec) = 290.9 mb/sec

Read
107374182400 bytes transferred in 248.463160 secs (432153332 bytes/sec)= 412.1 mb/sec (yes, I ran that benchmark 3x)

~80 watts idle, no drive spin down
 

zicoz

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Messages
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Hi, just ran these test, and I got 244MB/s write and 302MB/s read with the following hardware:


SuperMicro X9SRL-F motherboard
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 0 @ 1.80GHz
8GB of memory
16xSamsung Spinpoint 204UI harddrives spread across 2xRaidZ2 vdevs
IBM M1015 HBAs flashed with LSI firmware

Should I be happy with these results?
 

cyberjock

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Messages
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The results don't matter as long as you are happy with your system performance. For the number of hard drives you have(you didn't mention their size) buying more RAM will almost certainly increase performance. The manual recommends your RAM follow the 6GB + 1GB for each TB of hard disk space. I'm pretty sure you are far far below that.
 

zicoz

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Messages
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Thank you. The 204UI drives are 2TB drives but you're right that I could've added that part as well.

It's just a mediaserver Connected with a Gbit so I can't utilize anything above 1Gbit/s (2Gbit/s when I start using the 2nd NIC) but it's just nice to know where the bottleneck is, I do have 32GB of memory on the shelf that was supposed to put in a TV-server but it didn't work with the motherboard so I Guess I can put them in there as well and see what happends.

Thank you once again.


edit:

Another question, I'm thinking of using 3TB drives for further expansion that won't effect the performance in a negative way as long as I keep 3TB drives and 2TB drives in sepereate Vdevs will it?
 

CrashX

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Messages
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8Gb RAM
tune ZFS
MB ASUS M5A97 PRO
RAM SAMSUNG 4Gbx2@1866-8-9-9-24-1T 1,5V
CPU FX-6100 default
HDD
5xWDC WD10EZEX-00RKKA0 (WD Blue 1TB 64m cache [standalone -read 240mb\s write 150mb\s])
system instal to usb token 8gb adata
Code:
#ZFS kernel tune 8gb RAM
kern.maxvnodes=250000
#
vm.kmem_size="7G"
vm.kmem_size_max="7G"
#
vfs.zfs.arc_min="5G"
vfs.zfs.arc_max="6G"
#
vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="0"
#
vfs.zfs.vdev.cache.size="10M"
#
vfs.zfs.vdev.min_pending="1"
vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending="1"
#
vfs.zfs.txg.synctime="2"
vfs.zfs.txg.timeout="5"
#
vfs.zfs.txg.write_limit_override="1073741824"


nas:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/zPool/zData/tmp.dat bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 227.404001 secs (472173673 bytes/sec)
nas:~# dd if=/mnt/zPool/zData/tmp.dat of=/dev/null bs=2048k count=50k
51200+0 records in
51200+0 records out
107374182400 bytes transferred in 261.911124 secs (409964192 bytes/sec)
 

Proger

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Joined
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Messages
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Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
Pentium G2120
16Gb PC3-12800 DDR3
8x 3Tb SATA 6Gb/s Seagate Barracuda (ST3000DM001) in RAIDZ2 on onboard intel SATA + onboard marvell
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p7 (FREENAS.amd64)
Code:
[root@freenas] ~# zpool status
pool: rz2pool
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rz2pool ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/0baff6fc-d2e4-11e2-b72e-902b34391ab8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/578788eb-d2e3-11e2-b72e-902b34391ab8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/6effd222-d2e3-11e2-b72e-902b34391ab8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/7f328aa8-d2e3-11e2-b72e-902b34391ab8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/8fbe615f-d2e3-11e2-b72e-902b34391ab8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/a149669e-d2e3-11e2-b72e-902b34391ab8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/b04c1ecf-d2e3-11e2-b72e-902b34391ab8 ONLINE 0 0 0
gptid/bd51d967-d2e3-11e2-b72e-902b34391ab8 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/rz2pool/ddtestfile bs=512k count=40000
20971520000 bytes transferred in 31.039308 secs (675643932 bytes/sec) - 644 Mb/s
dd of=/dev/null if=/mnt/rz2pool/ddtestfile bs=512k count=40000
20971520000 bytes transferred in 37.054304 secs (565967183 bytes/sec) - 539 Mb/s
 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/rz2pool/ddtestfile bs=2M count=10000
20971520000 bytes transferred in 33.886780 secs (618870249 bytes/sec) - 590 Mb/s
dd of=/dev/null if=/mnt/rz2pool/ddtestfile bs=2M count=10000
20971520000 bytes transferred in 32.381755 secs (647633832 bytes/sec) -  617 Mb/s
 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/rz2pool/ddtestfile bs=16M count=1250
20971520000 bytes transferred in 35.566692 secs (589639316 bytes/sec)  -  562 Mb/s
dd of=/dev/null if=/mnt/rz2pool/ddtestfile bs=16M count=1250
20971520000 bytes transferred in 37.364760 secs (561264679 bytes/sec)  -  535 Mb/s


rz2 ws rz1 differences (see my test above, 6 disks at rz1 is faster)?
 

macnlz

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Messages
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Fractal Node 304
SeaSonic SSR-450RM (modular, 80plus Gold)
ASRock FM2A85X-ITX (7 internal SATA3 ports)
AMD A4-4000 (65W TDP)
2x4GB non-ECC Corsair PC3-10600 (1333MHz)
6x2TB WD Red
ZFS raidz2 (mostly empty)
booting from internal USB stick (had to keep USB 3.0 disabled due to crashes)

All testing using 100GB transfers via "dd if=/dev/zero of=... bs=2048k count=50k” and "dd if=... of=/dev/zero bs=2048k count=50k”, with compression disabled.

Most testing performed with rudimentary sysctl tuning:
Code:
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max    16777216
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max     16777216
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf           16777216
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto    1
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto    1
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc     16384
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc     524288
net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable 0


Later testing performed with powerd enabled, and more sysctl/tunable tuning after some research:
Code:
tunables:
kern.hz  250        Reduce kernel interrupt frequency for power savings
 
sysctl:
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max    2097152    Recommended for up to Gigabit Ethernet speeds.
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max    2097152    Recommended for up to Gigabit Ethernet speeds.
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf         2097152    Recommended for up to Gigabit Ethernet speeds.
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_auto   1
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_auto   1
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_inc    65536      1/4 of what’s suggested for Gigabit Ethernet (doing WiFi here)
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_inc    65536      1/4 of what’s suggested for Gigabit Ethernet (doing WiFi here)
net.inet.ip.forwarding      1
net.inet.ip.fastforwarding  1
net.inet.tcp.mssdflt        1460        MTU size
net.inet.tcp.rfc1323        1          Allow send/recvspace to exceed 64KB
net.inet.tcp.sendspace      411720      Congestion window: 80Mbps * 40ms
net.inet.tcp.recvspace      411720      Congestion window: 80Mbps * 40ms
net.inet.tcp.slowstart_flightsize 141    (sendspace / MTU) / 2 - Bet that the connection is good, ramp up quickly.
net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack    1
net.inet.tcp.delacktime     100        Piggyback ack’s onto the return packet in most cases.
net.inet.tcp.inflight.min   6144        Suggested by tuning(7)
net.inet.tcp.inflight.debug 0
net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable 1          Dynamically limit throughput to optimize buffer usage on variable speed connections (WiFi).
net.inet.tcp.hostcache.expire 3900      Don’t expire the cache right when a host does its hourly checkin.



Code:
GELI disk encryption disabled (for testing only - I want it on):
 
direct (no network):
write: 317.353848 secs (338342147 bytes/sec) = 322.67MiB/s
read: 347.829313 secs (308697911 bytes/sec) = 294.40MiB/s
 
Gigabit Ethernet + afp:
write: 1291.743512 secs (83123454 bytes/sec) = 79.27MiB/s (664.99mbps)
read: 1476.271611 secs (72733352 bytes/sec) = 69.36MiB/s (581.87mbps)
 
WiFi + afp (802.11n, channel 149, RSSI -32 to -37, transmit rate 216-300):
write: 5825.926545 secs (18430404 bytes/sec) = 17.57MiB/s (147.44mbps)
read: 6404.202416 secs (16766207 bytes/sec) = 15.99MiB/s (134.13mbps)
 
final settings (powerd, more sysctls), via Wifi + afp:
write: 4920.086985 secs (21823635 bytes/sec) = 20.81MiB/s (174.59mbps)
read: 6226.676063 secs (17244222 bytes/sec) = 16.45MiB/s (137.95mbps)
 
 
GELI disk encryption enabled:
 
direct (no network):
write: 1137.761125 secs (94373221 bytes/sec) = 90.00MiB/s
read: 704.188801 secs (152479253 bytes/sec) = 145.42MiB/s
 
Gigabit Ethernet + afp:
write: 2032.278082 secs (52834395 bytes/sec) = 50.38MiB/s (422.68mbps)
read: 1615.509503 secs (66464593 bytes/sec) = 63.38MiB/s (531.72mbps)
 
final settings (powerd, more sysctls), via Wifi + afp:
write: 10753.461960 secs (9985080 bytes/sec) = 9.52MiB/s (79.88mbps)
read: 6542.687941 secs (16411326 bytes/sec) = 15.65MiB/s (131.29mbps)



So, regrettably, the maximum throughput in my case has very little to do with reality. I want full disk encryption, and I’ll primarily be using the NAS via WiFi (our household is nearly free of cluttery cables).

Performance is seriously impacted by all factors shown above: underpowered CPU for encryption and compression (though hardware encryption was found and used), slow Gigabit ethernet, even slower 802.11n WiFi (with a very open 5GHz spectrum and while sitting in the same room as the base station)...

But ultimately, I’m getting what I wanted: a storage solution that’s hardened against bit rot, and reasonably fast, large, and WiFi-accessible.


By the way, power consumption is reported by my Kill-a-Watt as follows:
Code:
without powerd:
~40-42 watts idle, drives spun down
~53-55 watts idle, no drive spin down
~61-67 watts under full load (no encryption, no compression)
 
with powerd:
~35 watts idle, drives spun down, powerd enabled
~50 watts idle, no drive spin down
~59-69 watts under full load (no encryption, no compression)
~59-71 watts under full load (with encryption, no compression)
~55-74 watts under full load (with encryption, compression)
 

cyberjock

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You know, my FreeNAS server with no drives.. Xeon e3-1230v2, 32GB of ECC RAM, dual GB Intel LAN, uses less power than your machine at the wall. Mine sat at a solid 35watts with powerd off. Plus, since I have AES-NI I do use encryption for one of my zpools. :P
 
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