WakeOnLAN, slow copy speed

[simon-rowing]

Hello all

First of all I'm not a native speaker, and my English isn't very well, so please apologize for that.

My project:

I built a FreeNAS Server with 8 TB (6 TB RAID5), with the following items:
- ASROCK ALiveNF6G-DVI (http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=ALiveNF6G-DVI)
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%2064%20X2%203800+%20-%20ADA3800IAA5CU%20%28ADA3800CUBOX%29.html)
- OCZ Gold GX XTC 1GB DDR2 PC2-6400 (http://www.idealo.de/preisvergleich/OffersOfProduct/524911_-gold-gx-xtc-1gb-ddr2-pc2-6400-ocz2g8001g-cl5-ocz.html)
- LSI MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP
- Western Digital WD20EARS Caviar Green 2TB (http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B002ZCXK0I)

I also bought an old 19'' Chenbro Server Blade with six backplanes.

I started this nearly 3 months ago, because all of this is new for me.

What I did:
I installed FreeNAS 8.0.2 for amd.
I configured with the RAID-BIOS the RAID array.
I set the permissions for the folders via putty.
I created a ZFS Volume.

My questions:
I it possible to set different file and directory masks for different folders?
Why do I have only a copy speed of ~10 mb/s, although I have Gigabyte LAN everywhere?
I also want Wake on Lan, but I cannot find a readme.
I enabled WOL in my BIOS and tested it with ifconfig -m.

[root@freenas] ~# ifconfig -m
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        capabilities=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:13:8f:e0:a4:9a
        inet 192.168.0.19 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media autoselect mediaopt flowcontrol
                media autoselect
                media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,flowcontrol,master
                media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,flowcontrol
                media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex,master
                media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                media 1000baseT mediaopt master
                media 1000baseT
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex,flowcontrol
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX
                media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex,flowcontrol
                media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
                media 10baseT/UTP
                media none
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
        capabilities=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>

Although WOL is possible I cannot enable it on interfaces. Perhaps someone can also help me with this problem.

Thanks to everyone!

Simon

 

[Orum]

Why do I have only a copy speed of ~10 mb/s, although I have Gigabyte LAN everywhere?

There are lots of potential causes for this. Check the I/O rates of all devices involved (disks, ethernet, cpu) independently of one another to troubleshoot. I also have no experience with the nforce ethernet controllers, so I don't know if they're any good.

I also want Wake on Lan, but I cannot find a readme.
I enabled WOL in my BIOS and tested it with ifconfig -m.

[root@freenas] ~# ifconfig -m
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        capabilities=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>

...

Although WOL is possible I cannot enable it on interfaces. Perhaps someone can also help me with this problem.

Wake on LAN is documented in ifconfig's man page. The program used to wake machines, "wake", also has a man page, and there are other ports that use UDP to wake if you prefer or need that (net/wol, net/wakeonlan).

It looks to me like it's already enabled, see the options=82008<VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE> line. This indicates that you should be able to wake it with a magic packet.