I'm fiddeling with my J4205 now for a couple of weeks. So far it has been a frustrating XPEperience (SCNR) and I was about to pipe my J4205 to /dev/null.
Anywho, today appears to be a good day - I made significant progress after downgrading the mainboard BIOS to an older version!
Here's where I am at currently:
- Loader: 1.02b (DS916+)
- DSM: 6.1.7-15284 (DSM_DS916+_15284.pat)
Forget DSM 6.2.x, it's just painfully slow & unresponsive. Not even a ssh-session works fluidly. Shutdown/reboot mostly doesn't work and is slow. Onboard NIC speed sucks - UL randomly jumps from 10MB/s-90MB/s - Mainboard BIOS: 1.40
The newer versions include the meltdown patches -> already slow CPU gets even slower
Downgrade using "afudos.exe filename140.rom /GAN" if you are already on a newer BIOS version - BIOS Settings:
Disable all powermgt-options (speedstep, core package states)
Fast mode (don't think this really matters much)
Results so far:
+ SSH finally works fine
+ Onboard NIC UL & DL is rock solid @ ~110MB/s
+ System reboot works & startup speed is fine
- VMM doesn't work for me, getting kernel panic errors when trying to start any linux-vm
Benchmarks are finally as expected:
CPU:
sh-4.3$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=4096 | md5sum
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 16.1171 s, 266 MB/s
Basic SATA SSD-Volume:
sh-4.3$ sudo dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=/volume1/SysVOL1/Test/temp.bench conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.78121 s, 386 MB/s
Maybe I'll give DSM 6.2.x another try. Am just not there yet.
Hope this will be of some help.
tw1