NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi all

When copying to my Nas server using V2.02 the transfer speed averages around 5MBps using a 10/100 NIC.

Using the same setup on a Nas v1.5 the transfer speed varies between 5MBps & 0MBps every 6 seconds ie the transfer speed rises to the maximum & then drops to 0 over 6 seconds. This repeats throughout the copy process.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

if you are using NasLite 1.5 SMB (the free version) then this could explain it http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=457&highlight=&sid=738329216ad4a317698b6eda6555c047

Hi

my version of NAS+ is 1.5 USB not the free one!

Could it be a RAM issue?

thanks

During file transfers from an XP Pro computer to NAS 2.01 the sys log reports 'Too much work at interupt!' since changing the NIC from 100Mbps to 1000Mbps (RTL8169).

I've tried changing the the RTL8169 to different PCI slots but the error above remains.

BTW I'm getting better transfer rates since upgrading to Gigabit NIC (as expected) but the transfer rate still oscillates between 7Mbps & 0Mbps.

I upgraded RAM to 256MB but can't see any change in performance


Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.02.26-22:07+0000)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite daemon.info init: ^MStarting pid 1850, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.02.26-22:07+0000)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.32.NASLite (root@TZT) (gcc version 3.3.6) #2 Sat Jul 22 04:08:30 UTC 2006
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fdf0000 (usable)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000fdf0000 - 000000000fdf3000 (ACPI NVS)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000fdf3000 - 000000000fe00000 (ACPI data)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.notice kernel: 253MB LOWMEM available.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 65008
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: zone(1): 60912 pages.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.notice kernel: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.notice kernel: You can enable it with acpi=force
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 rw
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Detected 400.039 MHz processor.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 797.90 BogoMIPS
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Memory: 251520k/260032k available (2187k kernel code, 8124k reserved, 734k data, 536k init, 0k highmem)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 128K
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Checking for popad bug. OK.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb640, last bus=1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router SIS5595 [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.7.6-k1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.30.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.debug kernel: eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: eth0: RTL8169 at 0xd0800000, 00:0e:2e:7d:db:a8, IRQ 11
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:00.1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: SIS5513: chipset revision 208
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: SIS5513: SiS620 ATA 66 controller
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: hda: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DISK drive
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: hdb: WDC WD800BB-75FJA1, ATA DISK drive
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: )
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: blk: queue c048ad3c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: hda: 320173056 sectors (163929 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=19929/255/63, UDMA(66)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: hdb: host protected area => 1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: hdb: 156250000 sectors (80000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155009/16/63, UDMA(66)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Partition check:
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Jul 22 2006 04:09:13)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.debug kernel: libata version 1.11 loaded.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xd0804000, IRQ 10
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:01.2, PCI device 1039:7001
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: <6>hub.c: new USB device 00:01.2-1, assigned address 2
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: <6>scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Vendor: EXIGO Model: Flash Disk Rev: 2.00
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: .SCSI device sda: 258304 512-byte hdwr sectors (132 MB)
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.debug kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.debug kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 2
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1602k freed
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.info kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Sep 9 12:04:34 NASLite user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,65)
Sep 9 13:05:46 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:06:00 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:06:21 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:08:29 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:11:58 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:14:58 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:18:09 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:18:10 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:18:12 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:18:14 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:21:30 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:21:32 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 13:59:23 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:18:43 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:20 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:22 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:25 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:26 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:26 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:44 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:44 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:44 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:22:47 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
Sep 9 14:24:06 NASLite user.warn kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt!