Thank you for your reply.
I have just setup the CD-ROM version, and it all looks very nice indeed. Around 7 MB/s is the current transfer rate, not bad for a 100 Mb/s Ethernet and the present specs of the machine.
I have a 3COM switch attached, which is not top of the line, the buffer is very small. The NIC in the old NFS, which I'm transferring from, is a 8139 RTL, so that might not utilize the full bandwidth of the system, the architecture of the chip/driver is low-end, no doubt, but nonetheless it has served me well. I will eliminate the old NFS when it's done copying, and build a game-pc for my son.
As for the r/w_size, the old client size I used was 4096/8192, anything other than that didn't work properly, from the PVR to the NFS. But with NASLite (floppy Mbit) as the server, the recording/playback actually worked ok with 8192/8192, much more fluent than the old NFS, which was a 900 MHz, ATA100, etc. Could be the 8139 which was the culprit. Nonetheless, the NASLite simply runs fine, for that purpose. Now with the + version, I have a nice NAS for the local lan as well.
I look forward to see the progress of this project.
/Flemming
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Server System Log
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.06.01-20:52+0000)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer daemon.info init: Starting pid 256, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer syslog.notice klogd: klogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (2004.06.01-20:52+0000)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: Linux version 2.4.27.NASLite (root@stimpy) (gcc version 3.3.2) #8 Sat Jan 1 11:12:55 MST 2005
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000018000000 (usable)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.notice klogd: 384MB LOWMEM available.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: On node 0 totalpages: 98304
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: zone(0): 4096 pages.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: zone(1): 94208 pages.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: zone(2): 0 pages.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 BOOT_IMAGE=naslite.01
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Initializing CPU#0
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: Detected 333.353 MHz processor.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: Calibrating delay loop... 665.19 BogoMIPS
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Memory: 384792k/393216k available (1412k kernel code, 8036k reserved, 372k data, 508k init, 0k highmem)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.debug klogd: CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.debug klogd: CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 01
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Checking for popad bug... OK.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdc9c, last bus=1
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: PCI: Using configuration type 1
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: Initializing RT netlink socket
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: Starting kswapd
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (
rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996
okir@monad.swb.de).
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.2.52-k3
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: 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
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: FW Version=$Version$
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: 00:0d.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xfc00. Vers LK1.1.18-ac
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: 00:01:03:bb:59:d2, IRQ 11
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: product code 4b51 rev 00.13 date 11-15-00
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.debug klogd: Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: 00:0d.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: pcnet32.c:v1.30c 05.25.2004
tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: sk98lin: No adapter found.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.25.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: PIIX4: chipset revision 1
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: hda: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: 95Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: hdc: CD-ROM CDU711, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: hda: host protected area => 1
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: hda: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(33)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Partition check:
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.notice klogd: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: <6>Freeing initrd memory: 1285k freed
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.warn klogd: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Mounted devfs on /dev
* Feb 11 18:45:20 DreamServer user.info klogd: Freeing unused kernel memory: 508k freed