thehumangenius

I have a quick question. Completely new to unraid, dockers, etc. so please be gentle. I've just installed and begun using rtorrentvpn. Is there anything I need to do to actually configure the VPN? I have no idea how that works. Can I begin torrenting right away and I'm covered? I'm currently using NordVPN on my other network devices but from some cursory googling I understand trying to configure my unraid server to work with NordVPN is messy/impossible. EDIT: I'm an idiot and just realized I had installed 'rtorrent' and not 'rtorrentvpn' no wonder I couldn't figure out how to configure my VPN.

Is there a good way of narrowing that down? Any configurations I should check?

Hmm ok. There's no way it could be related to the drives, the SATA cables/ports, etc? That's a relief because that seems messier to fix. If both the router and the server have Gbit capability (and the router even shows it as operating as a Gbit line) and the cable is Cat6, where do I go from here?

Alright, here's what my iperf test looks like: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 24.5 MBytes 205 Mbits/sec [ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 26.6 MBytes 223 Mbits/sec [ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 27.8 MBytes 233 Mbits/sec [ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 28.6 MBytes 241 Mbits/sec [ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 28.5 MBytes 239 Mbits/sec [ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 28.8 MBytes 241 Mbits/sec [ 4] 6.00-7.01 sec 27.9 MBytes 232 Mbits/sec [ 4] 7.01-8.00 sec 28.1 MBytes 237 Mbits/sec [ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 28.6 MBytes 240 Mbits/sec [ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 28.0 MBytes 234 Mbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 277 MBytes 233 Mbits/sec sender [ 4] 0.00-10.00 sec 277 MBytes 233 Mbits/sec receiver

Struggling to figure out how to use this. When I extract and run the .exe it does nothing, pops up a black DOS screen for 1 second and disappears. After googling it said to copy it into the Windows System 32 folder and use it in CMD - I did that and it's still telling me it doesn't recognize the commands "iperf3 -s" for example. So I'm googling around trying to find some more instruction. EDIT: nevermind, I figured out I had to take the .exe out of the folder first

I know, but it is a cached share. Or at least according to my (very limited) understanding it is? As I said in the OP, I'm writing to a user share that is set to write to the cache, is that not what that means? I'm not sure of anything lol. I'm all ears. I was just describing the use case I'm currently experiencing the problem with in case that set off any red flags for anybody immediately.

I hadn't done much transferring through Explorer yet, but I just transferred a 1GB folder to test it out. It ranged from about 8 MB/sec up to a peak of about 40 MB/sec with a lot of peaks and valleys, I'd say it averaged about 20-22 MB/sec. Better but still not coming close to saturating a Gbit line.

Hey guys, complete noob to Unraid (5 days) and servers/PC building in general. Learning as I go, had some frustrating times getting up and running last week but I've learned a lot. Still experiencing some extremely slow file download/transfer speeds to the server though. I know Unraid isn't known as a high-performance file system but I'm mostly seeing like 10-15 MB/sec speeds, that feels really low. I built my server last Thursday to use as a home media server and general personal data storage. I'm running 4 16TB Seagate Exos enterprise drives, 3 data 1 parity, and a Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD 500GB as cache. Unraid version 6.9.1. I've got a Gbit line from my router to the server, Cat6 cable. Gigabyte C246 Mobo has 2 Gbit lines. So I don't think it's a networking issue. I also turned on Turbowrite because I saw somebody mention that on the forum as a possible solution, but it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference. I have only been writing files to one user share (Movies) and it's set to write to the cache. For file transfers I've just been using CuteFTP which is what I've used for a long time to transfer files from my seedbox over in Europe to my laptop and I usually see great speeds, only now I'm directing the files from the seedbox directly to the Unraid server, but still running the FTP client from my laptop. I'm currently transferring 10 large files (between about 7GB and 60GB) and all are transferring between 10-15 Mbps, so *does some quick math* 100 to 150 mbps which is about 12 to 19 MB/sec total throughput. When I transfer a single file at a time instead of multiple that one file can get as high as 8-10 MB/sec. Still really slow. I've attached my diagnostics as per the site rules. It's getting late but I'll check this post in the morning and hope somebody was able to find something in there that can explain this. tower-diagnostics-20210330-2254.zip