I just put together a "new" box for my NAS and I'm having some weird issues with write speed. I tried to copy a 890MB file using FileZilla client to my NAS-Lite v2.02 USB box. Initial speed seem to be ok but then it just stops completely every now and then only to resume with lower performance a few seconds later. This only happens when writing to the disk, transfering _from_ the server to client presents no such issues.
I tried using the same switch + cat5 cable to my laptop and redoing the transfer with no problems whatsoever.
My first thought was that the disk was malfunctioning but I just ran a complete error check using the manufacturers utility and it came out 100% working. Truly odd.. if anyone has any idea I'd appriciate it.
Hardware is ABIT KT7A-RAID AMD Duron 800, 3x128MB PC133 SDRAM, LSI-Megaraid 150-4 SATA Raid card, Single Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB 16MB buffer.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.02.26-22:07+0000)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 daemon.info init: ^MStarting pid 1522, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.02.26-22:07+0000)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.33.NASLite (root@TZT) (gcc version 3.3.6) #1 Tue Aug 15 01:08:13 UTC 2006
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ff0000 (usable)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff0000 - 0000000017ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000017ff3000 - 0000000018000000 (ACPI data)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: 383MB LOWMEM available.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 98288
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 94192 pages.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 VT8371 ) @ 0x000f7900
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 VT8371 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x17ff3000
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 VT8371 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x17ff3040
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 VT8371 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 rw
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Detected 800.054 MHz processor.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 1595.80 BogoMIPS
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Memory: 383200k/393152k available (2198k kernel code, 9568k reserved, 734k data, 536k init, 0k highmem)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: CPU: AMD Duron(tm) processor stepping 01
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Checking for popad bug. OK.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ12 SCI: Level Trigger.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4e0, last bus=1
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 03): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: PCI: Via IRQ fixup
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 *15)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 15
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (
rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996
okir@monad.swb.de).
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 2 throttling states)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.7.6-k1
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 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 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: : Donald Becker and others.
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html * Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: 00:0f.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xdc00. Vers LK1.1.18
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004
tsbogend@alpha.franken.de * Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 15 2006 01:22:52)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: megaraid: found 0x1000:0x1960:bus 0:slot 9:func 0
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: scsi1:Found MegaRAID controller at 0xd8806000, IRQ:15
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: megaraid: [713R:G121] detected 1 logical drives.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: megaraid: supports extended CDBs.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: megaraid: channel[0] is raid.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: scsi1 : LSI Logic MegaRAID 713R 254 commands 16 targs 4 chans 7 luns
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: scsi1: scanning scsi channel 0 for logical drives.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD 0 RAID0 286G Rev: 713R
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: scsi1: scanning scsi channel 1 for logical drives.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: scsi1: scanning scsi channel 2 for logical drives.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: scsi1: scanning scsi channel 3 for logical drives.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: scsi1: scanning scsi channel 4 [P0] for physical devices.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.20 loaded.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: SCSI device sda: 586104832 512-byte hdwr sectors (300086 MB)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Partition check:
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 10
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 10
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: <6>hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: .<6>scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Drive Rev: 1.00
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: .Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: .SCSI device sdb: 524288 512-byte hdwr sectors (268 MB)
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.debug kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.debug kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 2
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: <6>Freeing initrd memory: 1601k freed
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed
* Nov 4 07:24:05 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,1)