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Hi guys.. 

 

Whats the go with slowish network file transfers? If i do an iperf in each direction from the nas to my study PC - it maxes out the connection.

 

NAS as the server:

$ ./iperf3_3.1.3 -s
-----------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on 5201
-----------------------------------------------------------
Accepted connection from 192.168.1.101, port 49554
[  5] local 192.168.3.2 port 5201 connected to 192.168.1.101 port 49555
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   108 MBytes   907 Mbits/sec
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   113 MBytes   944 Mbits/sec
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   943 Mbits/sec
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   943 Mbits/sec
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]  10.00-10.04  sec  4.68 MBytes   938 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  1.10 GBytes   938 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Windows 10 machine as the server:

iperf3.exe -s
-----------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on 5201
-----------------------------------------------------------
Accepted connection from 192.168.3.2, port 33770
[  5] local 192.168.1.101 port 5201 connected to 192.168.3.2 port 33772
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   108 MBytes   905 Mbits/sec
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   938 Mbits/sec
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec
[  5]  10.00-10.04  sec  4.09 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  1.09 GBytes   936 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Running a dd benchmark on the RAID array shows plenty of write speed:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512M count=4 conv=fdatasync oflag=direct
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 9.32972 s, 230 MB/s

but when transferring files over the network, these are the kinda numbers i get:

image.png.70415d7821eea861659325ba3643f2c0.png

 

And it's not my PC either - as when i copy to/from the PC to my laptop, both NICs are maxed out at 112MB/s

 

The hardware:

Gigabyte-GA B85M-HD3G (onbaord intel nic)

i5 4570S

8GB DDR3

 4 x 4TB in SHR, BTRFS

Latest 918 bootloader, latest DSM

 

I've tried each of the SMB version settings in DSM - none make a difference. I have a feeling i had faster transfers when i was using a 3615 loader and EXT4. I can't image it's an issue with the CPU as the CPU load doesn't go up when transferring to or from.

 

Any ideas??

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26 minutes ago, rvmeush said:

Just a quick observation on the info you posted - the bandwidth listed in the iperf3 test seems to be megabits per second (Mbits) while the info shown in your graph seems to be megabytes per second (MB/s).

 

it kinda has both. the interval on the left is in exact seconds, the transfer column is how many MBytes were transferred in that second - ie 112MBytes / sec

 

image.png.a39908503caf1073b688e1f85096ee0d.png

 

anyway - after moving back to DSM 6.1 and EXT4, speeds have gone back to full speed:

 

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