NASLite Network Attached Storage

I got my NAS configured late Friday night with my new RAID 5 configuration. I'm getting abouty 16-17mb/sec from my PC to my NAS and about 20-25 mb/sec from the NAS to my PC. This seems sort of slow? The single drive I had in there before the Raid was actually getting a little better performance? I was doing this via a windows file share. This was over the gigabit LAN.

Hardware:

4x400gb Western Digital 400GB Sata 150gb Hard Drives
3ware 8506 PCI Raid Controller

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,

Deliverer

I'm getting similiar numbers on my setup.. I was hoping for a higher throughput but was unable to identify the bottleneck. Try to transfer via FTP instead of SMB (windows fileshare).

Not much better with FTP. Here is my log file. It appears my Raid Controller is running at 33mhz? Is this the cause?

System Message Log:

Nov 10 10:36:09 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.03.15-22:03+0000)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.35.NASLite (root@tzt) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 Sun Aug 12 09:03:16 EDT 2007
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009c400 (usable)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009c400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000004fff0000 (usable)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000004fff0000 - 000000004fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000004fff3000 - 0000000050000000 (ACPI data)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fefffc00 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.notice kernel: 383MB HIGHMEM available.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.notice kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 327664
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 225280 pages.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 98288 pages.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia ) @ 0x000f7940
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x4fff3000
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x4fff3040
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x4fff80c0
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Detected 2410.995 MHz processor.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 4810.34 BogoMIPS
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Memory: 1289228k/1310656k available (2214k kernel code, 21028k reserved, 642k data, 540k init, 393152k highmem)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ stepping 0a
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbc70, last bus=2
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [ISAV] (on)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGPB._PRT]
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: I: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [L3CM] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSID] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFID] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs *16), disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs *17), disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs *18), disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs *19), disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs *16), disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs *23), disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSJ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] enabled at IRQ 3
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] enabled at IRQ 7
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] enabled at IRQ 7
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] enabled at IRQ 7
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] enabled at IRQ 5
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 11
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 12
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
Nov 10 10:36:09 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
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf8809000, 00:18:4d:76:a6:b6, IRQ 12
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: NFORCE3-250: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:08.0
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: NFORCE3-250: chipset revision 162
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: NFORCE3-250: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: NFORCE3-250: 00:08.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: , BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: hdd: Compaq CRD-8484B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 12 2007 09:05:44)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.notice kernel: scsi1 : Found a 3ware Storage Controller at 0xc000, IRQ: 11, P-chip: 1.3
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: scsi1 : 3ware Storage Controller
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Vendor: 3ware Model: Logical Disk 0 Rev: 1.0
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.20 loaded.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: SCSI device sda: 2344262016 512-byte hdwr sectors (1200262 MB)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.2 to 64
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:02.2: PCI device 10de:00e8
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:02.2: irq 7, pci mem f880d000
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 00:02.2
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: ehci_hcd 00:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: hub.c: 8 ports detected
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf880f000, IRQ 7
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, PCI device 10de:00e7
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: hub.c: 4 ports detected
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.debug kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.1 to 64
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xf8811000, IRQ 7
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.1, PCI device 10de:00e7
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: hub.c: 4 ports detected
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1952k freed
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 540k freed
Nov 10 10:36:09 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,1)

The 32bit PCI-bus operates at 33MHz so thats normal (64bit PCI is not very common on consumer-grade hardware). 33MHz will give you a theoretical throughput of 133MB/s but thats for the entire bus shared with all PCI devices. I'll let Tony or Ralph comment as to what could be causing your "low" numbers..

Here are some stats with diskwriggler. Reads look pretty good. Writes look bad.

C:\Diskwriggler>diskWriggler.exe -NTSC -C -t -n 1000 -o \\192.168.1.240\disk-0
Frame Resolution : 720 x 486
Bytes / Pixel : 2.00 (packed) (8 bit, 4:2:2 sampling)
Frame Size : 699,840 bytes
File Type : All frames in one container file (699,840,000 bytes).

Writing 1000 x 699840 byte frames into file \\192.168.1.240\disk-0/framestream.
at
136 frames in 5.16 secs ==> 26.34 FPS (17.58 MB/s)
55 frames in 5.19 secs ==> 10.59 FPS (7.07 MB/s)
69 frames in 5.01 secs ==> 13.78 FPS (9.20 MB/s)
67 frames in 5.07 secs ==> 13.21 FPS (8.82 MB/s)
67 frames in 5.09 secs ==> 13.17 FPS (8.79 MB/s)
76 frames in 5.18 secs ==> 14.67 FPS (9.79 MB/s)
58 frames in 5.01 secs ==> 11.58 FPS (7.73 MB/s)
66 frames in 5.07 secs ==> 13.02 FPS (8.69 MB/s)
76 frames in 5.01 secs ==> 15.18 FPS (10.13 MB/s)
67 frames in 5.05 secs ==> 13.26 FPS (8.85 MB/s)
77 frames in 5.09 secs ==> 15.14 FPS (10.11 MB/s)
63 frames in 5.05 secs ==> 12.46 FPS (8.32 MB/s)
96 frames in 5.15 secs ==> 18.65 FPS (12.45 MB/s)
27 frames in 1.64 secs ==> 16.48 FPS (11.00 MB/s)

Write Summary : 1000.00 frames in 67.77 secs
: 10.59(min) 14.76(avg) 26.34(max) FPS
: 7.07(min) 9.85(avg) 17.58(max) MB/s

Reading 1000 x 699840 byte frames from file \\192.168.1.240\disk-0/framestream.
at
200 frames in 5.02 secs ==> 39.82 FPS (26.57 MB/s)
345 frames in 5.12 secs ==> 67.42 FPS (45.00 MB/s)
323 frames in 5.01 secs ==> 64.50 FPS (43.05 MB/s)
132 frames in 3.18 secs ==> 41.48 FPS (27.68 MB/s)

Read Summary : 1000.00 frames in 18.33 secs
: 39.82(min) 54.56(avg) 67.42(max) FPS
: 26.57(min) 36.41(avg) 45.00(max) MB/s

Here are my stats:

c:\dw\diskwriggler -NTSC -C -t -n 1000 -o \\192.168.0.11\disk-0
Frame Resolution : 720 x 486
Bytes / Pixel : 2,00 (packed) (8 bit, 4:2:2 sampling)
Frame Size : 699,840 bytes
File Type : All frames in one container file (699,840,000 bytes).

Writing 1000 x 699840 byte frames into file \\192.168.0.11\disk-0/framestream.dat
155 frames in 5,00 secs ==> 31,00 FPS (20,69 MB/s)
144 frames in 5,00 secs ==> 28,80 FPS (19,22 MB/s)
139 frames in 5,00 secs ==> 27,80 FPS (18,55 MB/s)
141 frames in 5,02 secs ==> 28,11 FPS (18,76 MB/s)
141 frames in 5,00 secs ==> 28,20 FPS (18,82 MB/s)
141 frames in 5,00 secs ==> 28,20 FPS (18,82 MB/s)
139 frames in 4,75 secs ==> 29,26 FPS (19,53 MB/s)

Write Summary : 1000.00 frames in 34,77 secs
: 27,80(min) 28,76(avg) 31,00(max) FPS
: 18,55(min) 19,20(avg) 20,69(max) MB/s

Reading 1000 x 699840 byte frames from file \\192.168.0.11\disk-0/framestream.dat
171 frames in 5,02 secs ==> 34,09 FPS (22,75 MB/s)
131 frames in 5,11 secs ==> 25,64 FPS (17,11 MB/s)
186 frames in 5,02 secs ==> 37,08 FPS (24,75 MB/s)
188 frames in 5,03 secs ==> 37,37 FPS (24,94 MB/s)
189 frames in 5,03 secs ==> 37,57 FPS (25,07 MB/s)
135 frames in 3,61 secs ==> 37,40 FPS (24,96 MB/s)

Read Summary : 1000.00 frames in 28,81 secs
: 25,64(min) 34,71(avg) 37,57(max) FPS
: 17,11(min) 23,16(avg) 25,07(max) MB/s

The speed seems to be ok for raid5. The difference in R vs W may be the crappy rtl chip in your NIC. Those things do well on some boards and totally crap all over themselves in others. Don't know if it's a BIOS, bus, or whatever related, but people do complain about rtl. Not a scientific answer, but it's all i've got.

I have the Netgear GA311 in the server.

I ordered a Intel, 82540EM chipset, from fleebay. I'll post my findings. I hope this is indeed the issue.

Deliverer

You can try different PCI slots as well as BIOS tweaks to free up some IRQs. Looking at the syslog, nothing jumps out, but at times certain combinations tend to perform poorly compared to others. In many cases simply moving the peripherals to different slots and resetting the BIOS does the job.

Hope that helps...

I installed a new Intel Pro/1000 MT card. I ran some checks and started having errors writing and reading. The speed seemed really good for a second, then write and read errors. I put the old card back in and it's slow, of course, but I dont' get errors. Any ideas? Here is the log when I had the intel card installed. Is this a bad card?

I also tried the old Netgear card in a different slot. it didn't seem to make a difference for speed.

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System Message Log:

Nov 19 14:37:11 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.03.15-22:03+0000)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.35.NASLite (root@tzt) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 Sun Aug 12 09:03:16 EDT 2007
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009c400 (usable)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009c400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000004fff0000 (usable)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000004fff0000 - 000000004fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000004fff3000 - 0000000050000000 (ACPI data)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fefffc00 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.notice kernel: 383MB HIGHMEM available.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.notice kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 327664
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 225280 pages.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 98288 pages.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia ) @ 0x000f7940
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x4fff3000
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x4fff3040
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x4fff80c0
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Detected 2410.997 MHz processor.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 4810.34 BogoMIPS
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Memory: 1289228k/1310656k available (2214k kernel code, 21028k reserved, 642k data, 540k init, 393152k highmem)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ stepping 0a
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbc70, last bus=2
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [ISAV] (on)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGPB._PRT]
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: I: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [L3CM] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSID] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFID] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs *16), disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs *17), disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs *18), disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs *19), disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs *16), disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs *23), disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSJ] (IRQs 20 21 22 23) *0, disabled.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] enabled at IRQ 3
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] enabled at IRQ 5
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 11
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] enabled at IRQ 12
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (22 C)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: e1000: 02:09.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:07:e9:2e:e8:41
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
Nov 19 14:37:11 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
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: NFORCE3-250: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:08.0
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: NFORCE3-250: chipset revision 162
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: NFORCE3-250: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: NFORCE3-250: 00:08.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: hdb: Compaq CRD-8484B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: rs.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 12 2007 09:05:44)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.notice kernel: scsi1 : Found a 3ware Storage Controller at 0xc000, IRQ: 11, P-chip: 1.3
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: scsi1 : 3ware Storage Controller
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Vendor: 3ware Model: Logical Disk 0 Rev: 1.0
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.20 loaded.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: SCSI device sda: 2344262016 512-byte hdwr sectors (1200262 MB)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1952k freed
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 540k freed
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.info kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
Nov 19 14:37:11 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,1)

Disable ACPI?

ACPI is disabled in the BIOS. I've tried different BIOS configs and different PCI slots with the new card. These are the type of errors I get when running diskwriggler. Speeds look much better if I didn't have read and write errors

C:\Diskwriggler>disk0

C:\Diskwriggler>diskwriggler -NTSC -C -t -n 1000 -o \\192.168.1.240\Disk-0
Frame Resolution : 720 x 486
Bytes / Pixel : 2.00 (packed) (8 bit, 4:2:2 sampling)
Frame Size : 699,840 bytes
File Type : All frames in one container file (699,840,000 bytes).

Writing 1000 x 699840 byte frames into file \\192.168.1.240\Disk-0/framestream.d
at
175 frames in 5.01 secs ==> 34.95 FPS (23.32 MB/s)
508 frames in 5.01 secs ==> 101.45 FPS (67.71 MB/s)
317 frames in 2.90 secs ==> 109.25 FPS (72.92 MB/s)

Write Summary : 1000.00 frames in 12.92 secs
: 34.95(min) 77.42(avg) 109.25(max) FPS
: 23.32(min) 51.67(avg) 72.92(max) MB/s

Reading 1000 x 699840 byte frames from file \\192.168.1.240\Disk-0/framestream.d
at
read_frames:read_frames: error reading filePress any key to continue . . .

Well maybe I spoke too quickly on ACPI. I have three options in the BIOS.

S1
S1&S3
S3

Inside those options I can enable and disable features for Lan, PCI, WOR, USB, and Power on. I have tried various combinations of S1, S1/S3, S3 with these options enabled and disabled. Any thoughts? Can it be disabled at the NAS level?

Any ideas? I ordered a BCM5705 card to see if it would make a difference. I do have another motherboard and CPU. Should I try it?

I noticed that when I do ftp it's super fast. when I do windows file sharing I get fast reads, but slow writes? Any ideas?