Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:20:53 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Nenad Mihajlovic <nenad@venturis.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080225101927.024c0d88@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20080225163839.0ynsnyqygwgs84cg@venturis.hu> References: <20080225163839.0ynsnyqygwgs84cg@venturis.hu>
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At 09:38 AM 2/25/2008, Nenad Mihajlovic wrote: >Hi all, > >Recently I have received the reuest from the colleague to create the >homebrewn NAS for his small office, so I started checking the possible >options, and having good, stable and long relationship with FreeBSD >I've settled again for it. >Machine is not something special, Pentium D with 1G RAM and single >SATA150 disk, 3Com 1G server card in the PCI slot, connected to the >desktop though 1Gbps unmanaged switch. >If needed I'll provide the full config and setup information. > >After installing the bare FreeBSD 7.0RC3 and Samba 3.x.xx - whichewer >was included in the packages - I wanted to have the job done quickly, >the machine appeared on the network and everyone seemed to be happy >and live happily everafter. >Until dear friend of mine started using the machine to do the actual >work - basic editing of the wedding videos. > >When trying to upload the single file to file server, he was getting >the varying speed of 5-13 MBps, from his machine to file server - >which is unacceptably low for any kind of transfer speed. > >Interestingly enough, when he tried to copy _TWO_ files to file >server, the transfer speed vould jump to the 25-27 MB/sec and keep >permanent, without much fluctuation. > >After I tried to copy the files from one directory to another, iostat >has shown me the speed in excess of 29 MB/sec while copying the files >between two directories on the same server, so the disk access should >not be the problem. > >On the other hand, i experienced that when i try PING on the File >server's IP address from the fileserver, i get performance increase in >the transfer speed - the bigger the traffic i generate, the better the >results, which max out at 25-27 MB/sec with flood ping. > >Has anyone else experienced any similar behaviour? > >Regards, > >Nenad Just as an FYI, you may find it better to use FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD. http://www.freenas.org/ -Derek >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. > > > >__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >signature database 2900 (20080225) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > >http://www.eset.com > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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