On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:29 AM Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:13 AM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Well, I finally got it so I could do a backup.  I didn't need a hammer but the thought crossed my mind.  lol  Even tho I now have a 1GB network card, it's still really slow.  It shows up as a 1GB connection on both my Gentoo machine and the NAS machine.  This is a example of the speeds I'm seeing.  Just snippets.
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> > 277,193,507 100%   16.18MB/s    0:00:16
> > 519,216,571 100%   18.86MB/s    0:00:26
> > 738,078,565 100%   23.54MB/s    0:00:29
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> > As you can see, the files sizes are large enough it should do better.  When I use iftop, it shows it isn't doing anywhere near the speed it should, maybe 1/4th or so.  I'd expect at least double or triple that speed.  In all honesty, I'd think the hard drive would be the limiting factor.  Even on my Gentoo rig I only get about 50 to 60MBs/sec for encrypted drives.  I think the encryption slows that down.  When copying from a plain drive to a plain drive, I get 100MBs/sec or so.
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> > I can't figure out why it is so slow tho.  The NAS rig is a 4 core CPU and 8GBs of memory.  It should have enough horsepower under the hood.  Maybe it is something I'm not aware of.  It is a older rig so maybe it isn't SATA's fastest version, maybe even the original or something.  I can't find anything in lspci or dmesg so not real sure where to look on BSD.
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> > Anyway, it's progress for now at least.  ;-)  At this rate, it'll be done in about a week, maybe.  o_O
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> To what end Dale? Aren't you painting yourself into a corner with a system you don't really want to run? Wipe the machine and start over from scratch with Gentoo.
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> From my vantage point you don't provide enough information for me to make an educated guess.
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> 1) Is your data coming off the host machine able to transfer to other machines at 1Gb/S type speeds?
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> 2) Can data coming off of your NAS transfer to other machines at 1G/S type speeds?
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> 3) How are the two machines connected? If they are going through a router or hub, do you know that hub doesn't limit throughput?
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> 4) Is anything else happening on the network? Video flowing around while people are watching TV or something?
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> 5) CPU horsepower isn't the only potential bottleneck. Are your disks in the NAS operating slowly? Are you running out of memory?
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>    Have you considered running something like iperf?
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> Mark