Hello,
I am relatively new to FreeNAS and SAN storage but I am an IT support professional with over 15 years of desktop/server support experience. I have been searching via google and these forums for several days and can't seem to figure out this highly irritating problem: network performance on my newly built home FreeNAS setup and my 27" iMac running Mac OS X 10.7.3 never gets higher than 7 MB/s when copying files to an AFP share. I have also tried CIFS and NFS with similar results.
I have built out a successful FreeNAS setup on some old HP servers at work and was able to use that server to present some LUNs to a test ESXi 4.1 cluster using iSCSI, so I have a good grasp on properly configuring FreeNAS.
Here is my home setup:
- FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64 (10351)
- Shuttle XPC Barebone SG41J4
- Intel Pentium E5700 @ 3.0 GHz
- 8 GB RAM, internal 160GB eSATA HD (where FreeNAS is installed)
- Intel Pro/1000 GT Desktop NIC (not using on board Marvel-Yukon NIC as it doesn't seem to work)
- Cisco RV220W Router
- Highpoint RocketRaid 622 Raid HBA
- SansDigital TR4M+B Enclosure populated with 4x1TB WD1003FBYX Enterprise HDDs
- SansDigital TR4M+BNC Enclosure populated with 4x1TB MK1002TSKB Enterprise HDDs
- Specific console errors seen when using AFP:
every 1-2 mins while trying to copy files to the share (do not see these errors when trying CIFS or NFS but performance is the same)
- IFCONFIG:
I am using ZFS and have tried several combinations of storage configs with no different results:
- RAIDZ
- RAIDZ2
- Striped
- only using one enclosure to eliminate mixing and matching different HDD manufacturers
I have updated the BIOS on the Mobo and Raid HBA card, couldn't find any updates for the Intel Pro/1000 NIC.
I am thinking this might be a low level network issue, but don't have extensive experience with networking under FreeBSD. I bought the intel Pro/1000 NIC since it was on the supported list and cheap and could do jumbo frames. Any advice would be appreciated.
I am relatively new to FreeNAS and SAN storage but I am an IT support professional with over 15 years of desktop/server support experience. I have been searching via google and these forums for several days and can't seem to figure out this highly irritating problem: network performance on my newly built home FreeNAS setup and my 27" iMac running Mac OS X 10.7.3 never gets higher than 7 MB/s when copying files to an AFP share. I have also tried CIFS and NFS with similar results.
I have built out a successful FreeNAS setup on some old HP servers at work and was able to use that server to present some LUNs to a test ESXi 4.1 cluster using iSCSI, so I have a good grasp on properly configuring FreeNAS.
Here is my home setup:
- FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64 (10351)
- Shuttle XPC Barebone SG41J4
- Intel Pentium E5700 @ 3.0 GHz
- 8 GB RAM, internal 160GB eSATA HD (where FreeNAS is installed)
- Intel Pro/1000 GT Desktop NIC (not using on board Marvel-Yukon NIC as it doesn't seem to work)
- Cisco RV220W Router
- Highpoint RocketRaid 622 Raid HBA
- SansDigital TR4M+B Enclosure populated with 4x1TB WD1003FBYX Enterprise HDDs
- SansDigital TR4M+BNC Enclosure populated with 4x1TB MK1002TSKB Enterprise HDDs
- Specific console errors seen when using AFP:
Code:
freenas cnid_dbd[5857]: read: Connection reset by peer freenas cnid_dbd[5857]: error reading message header: Connection reset by peer
every 1-2 mins while trying to copy files to the share (do not see these errors when trying CIFS or NFS but performance is the same)
- IFCONFIG:
Code:
msk0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=c011a<TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE> ether 80:ee:73:13:ba:93 media: Ethernet autoselect em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:1b:21:c0:80:3c inet 192.168.1.15 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) status: active lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
I am using ZFS and have tried several combinations of storage configs with no different results:
- RAIDZ
- RAIDZ2
- Striped
- only using one enclosure to eliminate mixing and matching different HDD manufacturers
I have updated the BIOS on the Mobo and Raid HBA card, couldn't find any updates for the Intel Pro/1000 NIC.
I am thinking this might be a low level network issue, but don't have extensive experience with networking under FreeBSD. I bought the intel Pro/1000 NIC since it was on the supported list and cheap and could do jumbo frames. Any advice would be appreciated.