Callipygous
Cadet
- Joined
- Aug 9, 2013
- Messages
- 6
Hello. I'm having some throughput issues and am looking for advice on where to start checking for issues. I spent a bit of time in the IRC channel and was advised to move on to better hardware. While I would love to do that, I have much more time than money. I'm aware this is not the ideal hardware. I'm most concerned with finding the most cost effective way to increase speeds. If it is determined that upgrading the hardware is the only way to do that, then so be it; I would like to exhaust all other options first though.
Running FreeNAS 9.2.1.3 x64
Hardware:
Motherboard/CPU combo here
8GB of G.Skill RAM here
2 Hitachi Deskstars here
2 Seagate Barracudas here
Intel Gigabit NIC here
The NAS is a few feet from my RT-AC66U connected using a couple feet of CAT5E. My desktop is connected using power line converters (CAT5E both ends) and my HTPC is connected using a 50 foot CAT5E cable. The powerline converters don't appear to be the bottleneck to me as I get consistent results between my HTPC and the desktop. It's easy to eliminate though if anyone thinks contrary.
DMESG output here
ifconfig output here
pciconf -lv here
iperf results:
Actually speeds are around 4MBps read/write.
While testing the server by transferring large files using cifs shares I have never seen the CPU nor RAM rise above 50% usage per the monitoring graph in the http GUI.
Running FreeNAS 9.2.1.3 x64
Hardware:
Motherboard/CPU combo here
8GB of G.Skill RAM here
2 Hitachi Deskstars here
2 Seagate Barracudas here
Intel Gigabit NIC here
The NAS is a few feet from my RT-AC66U connected using a couple feet of CAT5E. My desktop is connected using power line converters (CAT5E both ends) and my HTPC is connected using a 50 foot CAT5E cable. The powerline converters don't appear to be the bottleneck to me as I get consistent results between my HTPC and the desktop. It's easy to eliminate though if anyone thinks contrary.
DMESG output here
ifconfig output here
pciconf -lv here
iperf results:
Code:
[root@freenas] ~# iperf -s ------------------------------------------------------------ Server listening on TCP port 5001 TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default) ------------------------------------------------------------ [ 4] local 192.168.1.156 port 5001 connected with 192.168.1.145 port 51743 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 21.5 MBytes 18.0 Mbits/sec
Actually speeds are around 4MBps read/write.
While testing the server by transferring large files using cifs shares I have never seen the CPU nor RAM rise above 50% usage per the monitoring graph in the http GUI.