Hello everyone
I have an interesting problem with Unraid and ZFS. Briefly about my setup, I have a Unifi network at home. My PC is connected with a 2.5 GbE NIC to a 2.5 GbE switch. My Unraid server is connected to the same switch with an Intel X520-DA2 via 10 GbE. I have a normal HDD array with single parity, a ZFS cache, a ZFS HDD pool and a brand new NVMe ZFS pool.
The platform is an X99 mainboard with 32 GB DDR4 Ram and an Intel Xeon E5 2699 v3 CPU.
Now to my problem, I have a rather modest transfer speed for all ZFS pools. My tests have shown that the transfer speed is dependent on my CPU generator. On "power saving" I get transfer speeds of about 145 Mbyte/s, on "on demand" I get speeds of about 180 Mbyte/s and on "performance" the speed increases to about 250-280 Mbyte/s from transfer start to transfer end. I find this particularly irritating with NVMe pools, as these SSDs are absolutely capable of a speed of around 280 Mbyte/s from the start.
Now I wanted to ask whether the CPU is perhaps no longer capable of delivering such speeds?
Thank you for the answers.
Greetings from Switzerland!