What transfer speeds should I be getting to my virtual freenas server?

Spooter

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Hi all,

I have a server running virtualbox and freenas installed for my file server. I have one card (Intel Pro/1000 GT) dedicated to it and I am getting speeds of 4.0 MB/s transfering to it.

What should I be getting? My router is a Netgear DG834GT DG Team Custom Firmware V1.02.16 – DGTeam Rev. 0848.

Also using Cat5e and im coping from a Windows 7 machine using teracopy.

Edit: Just tested with the 10/100 card assigned to that VM and I still get 4.0 MB/s max!!

Edit 2: The file system I am using on the disk is showing as UFS in freenas.
 
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So your using VirtualBox with a bridged adapter (your Pro 1000GT)? You're also using Samba I guess?

Last time I used Samba for filesharing the speeds were awful (to be expected), I was getting about 10MB/s on a dedicated Ubuntu 8.04 LTS svr running Samba. 4MB/s sounds like it couldn't be too far off given you're Virtualising your Samba server.
 
My samba shares on an dedicated archlinux box reach ~60MB/S so I very much doubt it is something to do with samba. I'm not sure what could be causing it though.
 
Same. Samba is not the problem unless you've configured it wrong. I regularly get 60MB/s+ when reading and writing to shares.

It'll probably be the hardware driver in use on the VM; VirtualBox provides para-virtualisation so you're never going to get true speeds, though 4MB/s seems odd.
 
Spooter said:
Hi all,

I have a server running virtualbox and freenas installed for my file server. I have one card (Intel Pro/1000 GT) dedicated to it and I am getting speeds of 4.0 MB/s transfering to it.

What should I be getting? My router is a Netgear DG834GT DG Team Custom Firmware V1.02.16 – DGTeam Rev. 0848.
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Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but doesn't that router only have 10/100 ports (giving you a *theoretical* maximum of 12.5 MB/sec, including overheads)?

Given that FreeNAS is known to have less-than-stellar Samba performance, perhaps 4 MB/sec isn't that unreasonable...
 
slylittlefox said:
Same. Samba is not the problem unless you've configured it wrong. I regularly get 60MB/s+ when reading and writing to shares.

It'll probably be the hardware driver in use on the VM; VirtualBox provides para-virtualisation so you're never going to get true speeds, though 4MB/s seems odd.
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Wierd, I've never managed such good performance on Samba. However, I haven't used it for a while...

VirtualBox doesn't provide para-virtualisation.
 
Just tried it on the same server but not virtual amd I get 11 MB/s compared to 4 MB/s virtual. The 11 MB/s is using server 2008 with a gig network card and router...

Thats still slower than I would expect!! I have also tried setting the nic to 1000 full.
 
Isn't the DG834GT 10/100 and not 10/100/1000 hence its not gigabit??

Or have I miss understood what you are trying todo?
 
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You my friend, just hit the nail on the head! I thought it was 10/100/1000 but no its:-

5 x 10/100 (1 Internet and 4 LAN) network ports with

Still, quite a performance hit between the virtual and physical machine. (4MB/s compared to 11MB/s)
 
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