From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 25 16:19:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1573A16A400 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:19:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA6D13C461 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:19:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1PGJ49s044801; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:19:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080225101927.024c0d88@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:20:53 -0600 To: Nenad Mihajlovic , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20080225163839.0ynsnyqygwgs84cg@venturis.hu> References: <20080225163839.0ynsnyqygwgs84cg@venturis.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:19:14 -0000 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.