Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 18 December 2022 15:12:37 GMT Dale wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> <SNIP> >>> >>>> My reasoning is simple, I'm already familiar with LVM and how to >>> manage it. >>> <SNIP> >>> >>> Take the machine, wipe it and build a NAS from scratch with Gentoo. If >>> all you want is an NFS mount that won't be difficult. Add an NFS >>> server, export your mount and you're done, right? Managing it over the >>> long term will be far more work than TrueNAS but you will be >>> comfortable with changing disks and adding network cards which >>> is important to you. Life is too short to deal with things you really >>> don't enjoy. >>> >>> I would not suggest you look at Ubuntu Server because it's NGL. 10 >>> minutes to install, 3 minutes to figure out how to add the NFS server. >>> However it's a different package manager and truly not as nice as >>> emerge/portage so you probably won't like that part of NGL either. I >>> truly don't like apt, but it works if I stay in my lane so I've >>> learned to do that, the advantage being I've never had to build a >>> package from scratch and I've never in 5 or 6 years had an update fail. >>> >>> Wipe the machine. You'll be happier. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> Mark >> Well, I finally got it so I could do a backup. I didn't need a hammer >> but the thought crossed my mind. lol Even tho I now have a 1GB network >> card, it's still really slow. It shows up as a 1GB connection on both >> my Gentoo machine and the NAS machine. This is a example of the speeds >> I'm seeing. Just snippets. >> >> >> 277,193,507 100% 16.18MB/s 0:00:16 >> 519,216,571 100% 18.86MB/s 0:00:26 >> 738,078,565 100% 23.54MB/s 0:00:29 >> >> >> As you can see, the files sizes are large enough it should do better. >> When I use iftop, it shows it isn't doing anywhere near the speed it >> should, maybe 1/4th or so. I'd expect at least double or triple that >> speed. In all honesty, I'd think the hard drive would be the limiting >> factor. Even on my Gentoo rig I only get about 50 to 60MBs/sec for >> encrypted drives. I think the encryption slows that down. When copying >> from a plain drive to a plain drive, I get 100MBs/sec or so. >> >> I can't figure out why it is so slow tho. The NAS rig is a 4 core CPU >> and 8GBs of memory. It should have enough horsepower under the hood. >> Maybe it is something I'm not aware of. It is a older rig so maybe it >> isn't SATA's fastest version, maybe even the original or something. I >> can't find anything in lspci or dmesg so not real sure where to look on >> BSD. >> >> Anyway, it's progress for now at least. ;-) At this rate, it'll be >> done in about a week, maybe. o_O >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > Has it auto-negotiated a full-duplex connection at 1Gbps? Run ifconfig and > check the output, it should say something like: > > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) > > If not, then you may need to set this up manually.
Mine says that here too. media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) You know, it's not that easy to copy that from a console on BSD. It was kind enough to give me a hint on how tho. ;-) I was pretty sure it was at full speed. In iftop it showed it was a 1GB connection, just not using much of it. I suspect it has something to do with this being a older system. I wouldn't be surprised if the SATA was a older and slower version. I guess I could google it. Dale :-) :-)
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