On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:24:20AM +0800, Alan Cheng wrote: > I did this on a similar hardware (Atom d525 + 4G + 100M LAN + 1 SATA2 > drive) a few weeks ago with OpenBSD AMD64 snapshot, but now I switched to > Ubuntu due to file copy performance issue. I can get around 10MB/s on > OpenBSD, but around 20MB/s with Ubuntu on the same hardware. > > One major difference here: my NAS is not for disaster, it's simply for file > sharing. All data is back'ed up somewhere else. It's also my wireless AP, > btw. > > I'll be glad to know if there is any tips/advices to get better file copy > speed on a OpenBSD NAS.
Mount partitions with options: noatime, softdep. man 8 mount. Increase the value of "kern.bufcachepercent" and "kern.maxvnodes". Read section 14 in FAQ. Both increase reading and writing speed in some situations. > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Jan Lambertz > <jd.arb...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > Hi there, > > to be prepared for storage desaster i am planning to upgrade my home > > box.itis a intel atom d525 with 2gig mem. Im planning to build up a > > small raid 10 > > with standard sata 5.25 inch drives. 1000 mbit lan. This storage will > > mainly be used for samba shares, backups and nfs shares. Of course i want > > massive performance. What du you suggest ? > > Change cpu > > Change filesystem (os) > > Parameters ? > > Do something other ? > > Any experiences in read /write speed of this hardware ? > -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
