ifconfig shows 100baseTX but GUI only 10M, why?

[danin]

Hi,

I've
Software version
FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-p2-x64 (r12686+b770da6_dirty)

Hardware:
mother GA-E350N-USB3 w/AMD onboard
8GB RAM
2x2Tb WD RED RADI 1 ZFS
Lan Realtek 8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)

The NAS is connected (wired) to a Linksys Router WRT54G2 (Basic one)
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If I check my console:
[root@freenas] /# ifconfig -m
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC>
capabilities=399b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 50:e5:49:e7:88:ec
inet 192.168.1.200 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
supported media:
media autoselect mediaopt flowcontrol
media autoselect
media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,flowcontrol,master
media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,flowcontrol
media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
media 1000baseT mediaopt master
media 1000baseT
media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex,flowcontrol
media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
media 100baseTX
media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex,flowcontrol
media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
media 10baseT/UTP
media none

It looks like is Full Duplex 100Mbits, but if I check "Reporting" I see only 10M as averge.(attached)




What or where is the probem ? GUI Bug? Drivers?

Thanks for your help!

 

[gpsguy]

If you are using CIFS, your slow CPU combined with your Realtek NIC will affect performance.

Search the forum for your mono/CPU and see what others are seeing,

If you've been transferring small files try some large, multi-gigabyte files for your tests.



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[gpsguy]

Your Linksya router is a bottleneck. If your workstation and server support gigabit Ethernet but a gigabit Ethernet switch and put it behind your router.

Given your server spec's one might see a 4x improvement in performance. An cheap 5 port switch costs about $30 US


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[Whattteva]

I think it's a bug. My network connection is 1-G, but I'm also only seeing what appears to be 10M in reporting.
CIFS performance gives me average 105 MB/s file transfers though, so I don't really care what the reporting tab gives me as long as my real performance is fine.

I wouldn't take anything in the "Reporting" tab seriously. It has serious bugs, at least in my experience. It even reports a lot of useless extra charts for my diskspace usage (makes extra charts for /etc /var and so on...) with all of them reporting 0% usage, lol. In total, I probably have like 30 or so extra disk charts and only like 2 of them actually have any sort of graph.

Do your own independent speed test. Don't use those charts. I don't think those charts were ever intended to be reliable benchmarks. Just a nice eye candy for people that like to see colorful pictures.

And yeah... like the other guy suggested. Upgrade your router lol. WRT54G has to be like 10-15 years old by now. Why would you build a nice NAS and then choke yourself with 100Mbit network? Heck, I feel like 1 Gbit is too slow for me already, but anything higher gets quite a bit pricy right now.