Slow CIFS share speed...need help to understand the problem

[enemy85]

Hi everybody,

FreeNAS 8.0.1 beta 2 AMD64 installed on:
MB Sapphire IPC-E350M1W PURE WHITE FUSION MINI-ITX (LAN chip Marvell 88E8059)
HDD 2xSEAGATE ST2000DL003 (mirroring)
RAM GEIL 4GB PC3 10660 1333MHz Value Plus 9-9-9 GVP34GB1333C9SC

I've installed the system and created first a ZFS 4k sector mirror VOLUME with the 2 hdd, and then a windows share using CFIS but when i first tried the share copying a video file i just got 2,10 MB/s...

I'm totally noob of freenas and unix commands but looking some guides i tried from the shell:

dd if=/dev/ada0 of=/dev/null bs=10M count=1000 (found through guides....)

which gave me as result:
10485760000 bytes transferred in 75.633811 secs (138638525 bytes/sec)

so the disk should be ok, right?

with IFCONFIG command the output is
"media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>)"
so maybe the problem is that one...

how can i change 100baseTX to 1000baseT?

just another question...from shell how can i create the log file and have them in a .txt file?

please help me 'cause i really need some help...

Thank you

 

[SoftDux-Rudi]

If you have a 1GB network switch then the NIC should automatically change to 100baseTX

 

[matthewowen01]

you're NIC is running at 100mb/s, what kind of network components are you using?

2.1 MB/s us a little slow for 100/mbs. 100mb/s is about 12.5MB/s but you'll usually get about 10-11 MB/s tops.

 

[enemy85]

Thanks for the reply,
The LAN chip on the Mobo is a Marvell 88E8059 and is a 10/100/1000 ethernet chip so that one should be ok. Unfortunately my modem has ethernet port only 10/100 so that's why i get 100baseTX... :(
What i can't understand is why i get such a slow speed 2.2 MB/s both with CIFS and FTP...i'd like to have at least 8-10...:(

Just a stupid question... But the gigabit network should not be 1000 instead of 100???

Thanks

 

[Bohs Hansen]

buying a cheap gigabit switch would most likely solve your problem. switch uplink to your router/modem and your nas and comps into the switch. Then all comps with gigabit should work as they should.

 

[golemcito]

I have similar problem but i have a gigabit lan. Please have a look at this post

 

[matthewowen01]

Thanks for the reply,
The LAN chip on the Mobo is a Marvell 88E8059 and is a 10/100/1000 ethernet chip so that one should be ok. Unfortunately my modem has ethernet port only 10/100 so that's why i get 100baseTX... :(
What i can't understand is why i get such a slow speed 2.2 MB/s both with CIFS and FTP...i'd like to have at least 8-10...:(

Just a stupid question... But the gigabit network should not be 1000 instead of 100???

Thanks

what are your computers plugged into? what kind of switch, router etc. please give us the path between your 2 systems.

for example from my FreeNAS box to my HTPC: my FreeNAS computer plugs into NETGEAR GS105, which plugs into a NETGEAR GS108 which then connects to my HTPC.

 

[SoftDux-Rudi]

Thanks for the reply,
The LAN chip on the Mobo is a Marvell 88E8059 and is a 10/100/1000 ethernet chip so that one should be ok. Unfortunately my modem has ethernet port only 10/100 so that's why i get 100baseTX... :(
What i can't understand is why i get such a slow speed 2.2 MB/s both with CIFS and FTP...i'd like to have at least 8-10...:(

Chances are the slow speed is due to the modem. It's probably a hub, and not a switch, and it probably also won't give you full wire speed. Connect a crossover LAN cable from your NAS to your PC and see what the transfer speed is like.

Also, copy files from one folder to another, using SSH and see what the speed is like.

Just a stupid question... But the gigabit network should not be 1000 instead of 100???

Thanks

No, the NIC will be limited to 100 since the modem is limited to 100 :)