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.
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