DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

orbitaudio wrote:

is your smbfs/mount using fuse (Filesystem in UserSpace).  Also is the either of the filesystems fat32 or ntfs?  Because these things may place additional load on either your NAS or main computer's cpu.

fuse? Actually I have no idea, how do I find out?

My linux box have ext3 and the NAS is using ext2 I think.

Yesterday I tried to mount the nas with cifs instead of smbfs but same results, 2.4-2.7 MB/s

This is really annoying, my windows computer with 100Mb nic is faster and even windows using virtualbox on ubuntu is faster.

Anyway it cant be the switch, network card or the nas since i have speed using ftp.
Must be something with how I mount the device.

Last edited by Randulf (2008-02-21 13:32:53)

frodo wrote:

There is many options in smb to tune...

Thanks for the tip.

Anyway, today I switch to my other network port on the motherboard and guess what! 14-17 MB/s, ~123 Mb/s
How can that be?
Is smb/cifs dependent on the NIC drivers?

eth0:
             product: 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
             vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
eth1:
             product: CK804 Ethernet Controller
             vendor: nVidia Corporation

The marvell card is the one that give ~15 MB/s

Set your troublesome NIC to 100MB/s with Full duplex and try again. It's possible your switch or router isn't handling the Auto negotiation properly with that particular NIC or driver. I've seen it a million times with a Micron chipset on the NIC with switches that use Autosense. It can be a VERY obscure problem sometimes. It's also possible you're getting a lot of crosstalk on the cable and should try swapping it out with a known good one.

Last edited by ispshadow (2008-02-24 23:35:05)

Ok, it does not seem like there is something with hw.
netstat -i gives:

  wrote:

Iface   MTU Met   RX-OK    RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR    TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0   1500 0      175326      0         0          0         143446      0       0         0       BMU
eth1   1500 0      109969      0         0          0           85534      0       0        0       BMRU

ifconfig:

  wrote:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX 
          inet addr:192.168.X.XXX  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::XX:XX:XX:XXXX/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9390074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5509536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:13394597608 (12.4 GiB)  TX bytes:541480863 (516.3 MiB)
          Interrupt:17

Tried to set the nic manually to 1 Gb/s and full duplex but no luck. But I don't think there is anything wrong with hardware or drivers since I have quite good speeds with ftp.
I can't remember I had such low speeds using the 1.03 firmware.
Think I'll have a try downgrading to 1.03 tomorrow since my printer doesen't seem to work with 1.04 either.

Last edited by Randulf (2008-02-26 00:29:22)

lanemeyer67ss wrote:

i'm also on Ubuntu and having very slow speeds:

http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t1744-hour … al%3F.html

i'd love to know if i'm doing something wrong.  is there a better way to connect to this i.e. virtualbox, vmware?

Do you have slow speed with FTP as well?
Have you tried mounting it with cifs?

just wanted to post that im able to mount my DNS323 using:

# sudo mkdir /media/Volume_1
# sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.17/Volume_1 /media/Volume_1 -o username=lanemeyer67ss,password=password

im still getting 1.4MBps write speeds using FTP.  will play around some more.