Slow Transfers All of a Sudden

[gabster]

Hi Gang!

So I am not sure - and I hope it's not me, but for instance an approx 150 Gb file (iphoto library from my mac) shows up as taking 22h (and going up) to transfer to my FreeNAS via a 1000baseT (1 Gbit/s) connection.
I checked the ifconfig on my NAS and it also shows 1000baseT connection. I am not sure how to check where the bottleneck might be.
Any ideas welcomed!

thanks!
gabi.

 

[joeschmuck]

Yea, it's likely because it is a ton of small files and has to do more with the speed of your Mac serving up the photos than the Ethernet or NAS being able to handle the shear amount of small files.

EDIT: To prove it, try to transfer a large single file like a video/movie. If it's slow also then we can troubleshoot but if it moves at a reasonable speed then it definitely is due to the small file sizes of all the photos.

 

[Stux]

Mac photo libraries are actually 'packages' which are folders with thousands of little files in them.

In this case at least one file for each photo.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Hardware specs and freenas version. Is your max using Ethernet?

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[gabster]

Thank you folks!!
@joeschmuck I tried your testing with a 1.6 Gb video file and it took 30 seconds to transfer. So yes, it was in the end the number of files in that library.

Thanks a lot gang!!!
gabi.

 

[skyline65]

Have a look at this resource... right at the bottom

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/smb-tips-and-tricks.15/

 

[joeschmuck]

There are times where I like the easy fixes and this is one of them.