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Ok so our office nas which is on FreeNAS 9.1.1 is unusable slow listing files/dirs when someone else(myself) is moving files around from one set of folders to another(directly logged in via shell)(several 100GB's worth) obviously that scenario rarely happens(first time in 5yrs) but it brought another issue to light which we have been wondering about for some time.
Occasionally the file server is slower than it should be and I figured out that it is due to someone using the windows Search box to find a old job file(daily occurrence) or when doing backups to another NAS(once an hour) making everyone elses access to the server slow while windows searches through between 1,000-10,000 files/folders this has been an issue for years but barely causes us concern however I am in the process of building a new file server as this one is now 4yrs old and can be relegated to the backup off site server. So I would like to know if there is a solution to this problem and if it is a hardware solution I need to include it into the new file server.
Currently we have 12 people using the file server daily but only 2 of those are constant use(work from files on server) and very soon we will be adding 6 more people and I would like to implement a policy of working off the file server as I plan to go to 10Gbe network.
To clarify I know this is not a network issue as moving files between Datasets or doing find ./*/*/*/*/*/*/*MyFile* causes the same issue with unusable slow anything, renaming a file(over network from windows) took 1m22s while doing a deep directory find operation(in SSH directly on server)
During the same find operation listing a folder with 300 Folder entries took 34seconds
Saving an excel file to server from windows took 38s
should also add that doing a file copy over the network if its the only file being copied and nobody else is using the file server happens at 112MB/s
The Specs on this(4yr old) server
Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2120 @ 3.10GHz
SuperMicro X9SCL-II Motherboard
16GB ECC Ram
3x 2TB WD Red HD(RaidZ1)
Supermicro Case/PSU
Occasionally the file server is slower than it should be and I figured out that it is due to someone using the windows Search box to find a old job file(daily occurrence) or when doing backups to another NAS(once an hour) making everyone elses access to the server slow while windows searches through between 1,000-10,000 files/folders this has been an issue for years but barely causes us concern however I am in the process of building a new file server as this one is now 4yrs old and can be relegated to the backup off site server. So I would like to know if there is a solution to this problem and if it is a hardware solution I need to include it into the new file server.
Currently we have 12 people using the file server daily but only 2 of those are constant use(work from files on server) and very soon we will be adding 6 more people and I would like to implement a policy of working off the file server as I plan to go to 10Gbe network.
To clarify I know this is not a network issue as moving files between Datasets or doing find ./*/*/*/*/*/*/*MyFile* causes the same issue with unusable slow anything, renaming a file(over network from windows) took 1m22s while doing a deep directory find operation(in SSH directly on server)
During the same find operation listing a folder with 300 Folder entries took 34seconds
Saving an excel file to server from windows took 38s
should also add that doing a file copy over the network if its the only file being copied and nobody else is using the file server happens at 112MB/s
The Specs on this(4yr old) server
Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2120 @ 3.10GHz
SuperMicro X9SCL-II Motherboard
16GB ECC Ram
3x 2TB WD Red HD(RaidZ1)
Supermicro Case/PSU
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