Hey all, I am running a FreeNAS 9.1.1 server, and I want to optimize it for CIFS performance. It runs with multiple windows clients around the place, and it struggles with larger files and directories with lots of files in it. I'd like to do some upgrading to improve performance, and am wondering where I should focus my efforts.
The system info is as follows:
Platform Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz (on a Jetway motherboard)
Memory
4065MB (DDR3)
I am running six WD 2TB drives in an 8.4 Tb ZFS volume. I have turned off services other than CIFS, SSH and Rsync (the device grabs files from a remote server regularly).
Should I be upgrading the CPU, more memory or both? I know that CIFS needs a good chunk of memory, but the CPU usage and physical memory usage both show that there is processor and memory to spare, so I am not sure where the bottleneck is. Any thoughts?
The system info is as follows:
Platform Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz (on a Jetway motherboard)
Memory
4065MB (DDR3)
I am running six WD 2TB drives in an 8.4 Tb ZFS volume. I have turned off services other than CIFS, SSH and Rsync (the device grabs files from a remote server regularly).
Should I be upgrading the CPU, more memory or both? I know that CIFS needs a good chunk of memory, but the CPU usage and physical memory usage both show that there is processor and memory to spare, so I am not sure where the bottleneck is. Any thoughts?