Hello everyone,

 

i have set up a fresh install of Unraid with an array of 4 Drives+1Parity+1Cache. I also have a 1Gbs connection to the server, but after like 15 minutes i get non measurble transfer speeds like shown in picture down below. I have also tried without parity drive, without cache, other system also same issue. Also Turbo Write doesnt change a thing. No dockers are running just file transfer from a Win10 Machine. Sys Log files are also down below. 

 

Please HELP me i dont know what is wrong with my server.

tower-diagnostics-20230520-1907.zip

@dlandon

There is a lot of this in your log:

May 20 10:07:14 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [BILDER/DIV/_MG_1428.JPG] failed
May 20 10:07:15 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:15.260677,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:15 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [BILDER/DIV/_MG_1429.CR2] failed
May 20 10:07:15 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:15.272700,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:15 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [PLEX/FILME/poe-faf6-xvid.avi.mp4] failed
May 20 10:07:15 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:15.281814,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:15 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [DOKUMENTE/3D Scanned/Scans/2020-12-31_10_48_30.skn/images/0000000000000000-0/view-00129198/calibration.yml] failed
May 20 10:07:17 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:17.601704,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:17 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [DOKUMENTE/3D Scanned/Scans/2020-12-31_10_48_30.skn/images/0000000000000000-0/view-00129198/grabber-type] failed
May 20 10:07:19 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:19.054329,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:19 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [BILDER/DIV/_MG_1429.JPG] failed
May 20 10:07:20 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:20.801702,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:20 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [DOKUMENTE/3D Scanned/Scans/2020-12-31_10_48_30.skn/images/0000000000000000-0/view-00129198/rgb_pose.avs] failed
May 20 10:07:25 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:25.054177,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:25 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [BILDER/DIV/_MG_1430.CR2] failed
May 20 10:07:31 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:31.099917,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:31 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [DOKUMENTE/3D Scanned/Scans/2020-12-31_10_48_30.skn/images/0000000000000000-0/view-00129198/sensor_properties.txt] failed
May 20 10:07:39 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:39.930268,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:39 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [BILDER/DIV/_MG_1430.JPG] failed
May 20 10:07:42 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:42.114140,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:42 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [DOKUMENTE/3D Scanned/Scans/2020-12-31_10_48_30.skn/images/0000000000000000-0/view-00129198/serial] failed
May 20 10:07:48 Tower  smbd[32664]: [2023/05/20 10:07:48.657620,  0] ../../source3/smbd/files.c:1199(synthetic_pathref)
May 20 10:07:48 Tower  smbd[32664]:   synthetic_pathref: opening [BILDER/DIV/_MG_1431.CR2] failed

This is most likely causing your slow transfers.

 

Couple of things to try:

• Turn off the macOs Interoperability and see if that makes any difference.  I doubt it will.
• Use Tips and Tweaks to adjust disk caching.  If you left the defaults, you're probably OK.
• Replace your NIC or add a NIC..  You are using s Realtek NIC and they are known to be troublesome with Linux because the drivers are not well maintained.

Thank you for the reply,

i am trying all these steps right now.

I will report back if it helps.

Thank you

 

Hello Again,

I tried it and it is the same.

Ive tried another nic with 4 Ports (also realtek).

Checked the Tips and tweaks and turned off macos Interoperability.

Disks 1 and 2 are SMR, and from a model known so sometimes perform very slow, if you still don't have parity assigned make a share use disk 3 only, since that one in not SMR, and re-test.

4 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Disks 1 and 2 are SMR, and from a model known so sometimes perform very slow, if you still don't have parity assigned make a share use disk 3 only, since that one in not SMR, and re-test.

This does not help me out.

I need to transfer about 12 TB of Data and Disk 3 is only 3TB

 

It will help confirm if the SMR disks are the problem, if they are obviously you'd need to get non SMR disks for better performance. 

29 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

It will help confirm if the SMR disks are the problem, if they are obviously you'd need to get non SMR disks for better performance. 

So i Have tried to copy direct to disk 3 and it works perfectly.

I also tried to disk 2 (8TB) and it works aswell

Why is it not working when i'm writing to the array?

And directly to disk1 is slow? Like mentioned some disks of that model can have particularly bad performance, much worse then regular SMR disks.

also disk 1 is perfectly fine with copy speeds

So what is the problem? Or are you using the disk shares? I mentioned trying the share with just disk3 included to force writes to that disk.

I have tried as you said a disk share to only drive 3 (CMR) which works perfectly fine i get like 100Mbis read/write (limitet through ethernet). Then i tried a disk share to Drive 2 (SMR) and it also worked like drive 3. Only when i write to the array of drives then it doesnt work see the first picture. Sometime transferspeed is good then after like 10minutes it drops to 0.

Now i have tried plugging in my External Drive via USB to the Server and copy it then to the array (User Share)

It was very fast for around 3 Hours and now i'm copying with ca 600kbps.

 

Like I mentioned before try using a user share with disk3 only, not a disk share since that will change other things, click on that share and set it to include disk3 only.