November 29, 200718 yr I've finally got around to buying some Intel Nic cards and updated to 4.2.1 and have been uploading a backup of another PC which is a 15gb file. The upload is erratic to say the least with the new Nics under 4.0, from 23% to 10% to 0% for about 10 secs then repeat. I reckon I'm running at about 8% to 10% network utilization on average. Now under 4.2.1 I'm getting a steady 2.0% Network utilization. What is a reasonable speed for uploading? I'm running a E4500 2.2ghz Core2Duo CPU with 2gb Ram in the Unraid. Also, are there any lan/nic settings I can tweak on the UnRaid (or my regular PC) that would enable the uploading of files to run less sporadically? Some machines on my network are 10/100 still so Jumbo frames are out I guess, is the Unraid set for Jumbo frames? [EDIT] I thought I'd add that I have 2 Gigabit switches between the Unraid and the main PC Thanks, Mark.
November 29, 200718 yr Your basic observation is consistent with what myself and others experience, though we are striving to make improvements. A ~5GB read from Unraid takes me about four minutes, double that for a write - both done via GigE. That calcs to a bit better than 20MB/sec for reads, 10MB/sec for writes, making my utilization 16% for reads, 8% for writes. There is a separate thread on this topic - check it out ... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1119.0 Bill
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