FreeNAS 8.3.1, 64bit on an 8GB thumbdrive
ASUS P8B75-M LX PLUS, Intel Pentium G2020 Ivy Bridge 2.90GHz, 16GB Crucial Ballistix RAM, 6x WD 3TB Red NAS SATA
The system is quick and my file transfers average 75MB/s. I am very pleased with this.
I have 2 major problems though. I am not able to stream movies from the server. It could be small 1.5GB show or large 14GB movie. Once I try to open the file, my share access to the server basically locks up while the web interface works fine. If I try to open one of my picture backup directories that has about 10,000 RAW files, then the share will hang for about 100-120 seconds before listing the directory. When the system hangs, no other computers can use a share.
I started with a 6 drive ZFS RAID-Z1, but have also tried a 2 drive UFS mirror and stripe. For the slow directory issue, I can use the web command line to list a large directory in about 2-3 seconds. I can use SSH to list a directory in under 1 second. I have tried all 3 sharing protocols (afp, nfs, smb/cifs) on two Macs using OS 10.6.8 and 10.7.5 and both of them are slow, taking over 100 seconds using my stopwatch. I also tried the nfs and smb/cifs shares on a fresh install of Windows 7, 64bit with no luck (a tad over 120 seconds to load).
I cannot see this as being a hardware issue. CPU usage is under 30%, RAM might jump up to about 11GB of my 16GB. I have done a lot of tinkering and searching. I even tried a bunch of tunables from a post - http://forums.freenas.org/archive/index.php/t-5338.html
My friend has a much weaker Solaris server with 2GB RAM, 10x 1TB Seagates in a software ZFS RAID-Z1. He only has a smb/cifs share and it can load my picture backup directory in about 3-4 seconds, file transfer speed is about 35MB/s, and there are no issues streaming movies from it. I really wish I could get this FreeNAS thing working, any help will be appreciated. I am probably going to tinker for about another week before giving up. Thanks.
ASUS P8B75-M LX PLUS, Intel Pentium G2020 Ivy Bridge 2.90GHz, 16GB Crucial Ballistix RAM, 6x WD 3TB Red NAS SATA
The system is quick and my file transfers average 75MB/s. I am very pleased with this.
I have 2 major problems though. I am not able to stream movies from the server. It could be small 1.5GB show or large 14GB movie. Once I try to open the file, my share access to the server basically locks up while the web interface works fine. If I try to open one of my picture backup directories that has about 10,000 RAW files, then the share will hang for about 100-120 seconds before listing the directory. When the system hangs, no other computers can use a share.
I started with a 6 drive ZFS RAID-Z1, but have also tried a 2 drive UFS mirror and stripe. For the slow directory issue, I can use the web command line to list a large directory in about 2-3 seconds. I can use SSH to list a directory in under 1 second. I have tried all 3 sharing protocols (afp, nfs, smb/cifs) on two Macs using OS 10.6.8 and 10.7.5 and both of them are slow, taking over 100 seconds using my stopwatch. I also tried the nfs and smb/cifs shares on a fresh install of Windows 7, 64bit with no luck (a tad over 120 seconds to load).
I cannot see this as being a hardware issue. CPU usage is under 30%, RAM might jump up to about 11GB of my 16GB. I have done a lot of tinkering and searching. I even tried a bunch of tunables from a post - http://forums.freenas.org/archive/index.php/t-5338.html
My friend has a much weaker Solaris server with 2GB RAM, 10x 1TB Seagates in a software ZFS RAID-Z1. He only has a smb/cifs share and it can load my picture backup directory in about 3-4 seconds, file transfer speed is about 35MB/s, and there are no issues streaming movies from it. I really wish I could get this FreeNAS thing working, any help will be appreciated. I am probably going to tinker for about another week before giving up. Thanks.