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Am Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 09:12:37AM -0600 schrieb Dale: |
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> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> > <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > > My reasoning is simple, I'm already familiar with LVM and how to |
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> > manage it. |
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> > <SNIP> |
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> > […] |
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> > Wipe the machine. You'll be happier. |
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> > Best wishes, |
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> > Mark |
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> Well, I finally got it so I could do a backup. I didn't need a hammer |
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> but the thought crossed my mind. lol Even tho I now have a 1GB network |
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> card, it's still really slow. It shows up as a 1GB connection on both |
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> my Gentoo machine and the NAS machine. This is a example of the speeds |
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> I'm seeing. Just snippets. |
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> 277,193,507 100% 16.18MB/s 0:00:16 |
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> 519,216,571 100% 18.86MB/s 0:00:26 |
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> 738,078,565 100% 23.54MB/s 0:00:29 |
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> As you can see, the files sizes are large enough it should do better. |
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Gbit nets at around 116..117 MB/s. |
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> When I use iftop, it shows it isn't doing anywhere near the speed it |
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> should, maybe 1/4th or so. I'd expect at least double or triple that |
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> speed. In all honesty, I'd think the hard drive would be the limiting |
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> factor. Even on my Gentoo rig I only get about 50 to 60MBs/sec for |
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> encrypted drives. I think the encryption slows that down. When copying |
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> from a plain drive to a plain drive, I get 100MBs/sec or so. |
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> I can't figure out why it is so slow tho. The NAS rig is a 4 core CPU |
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> and 8GBs of memory. |
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OK, so you already noticed that encryption slows you down. This won’t happen |
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with a CPU that has AES instructions (well, and if the encryption you chose |
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actually uses AES, and not something else like Blowfish). So I guess your |
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CPU is too old, given your earlier descriptions. |
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When I built my NAS in November 2016, I installed a Celeron G1840 at first. |
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A very affordable (33 €) and frugal CPU (2 cores, 53 W, which were never |
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actually drawn). I knew it didn’t have AES back then (Intel removed that |
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limit from Celerons in architectures after Haswell), but from experiments I |
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knew it would achieve around 150..160 MB/s with LUKS, which was enough for |
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Gbit ethernet. But not for scrubs, when all HDDs were worked in parallel. So |
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after a year I did an upgrade after all and bought the smallest and cheapest |
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CPU that had AES, an i3-41xx. |
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> It should have enough horsepower under the hood. |
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> Maybe it is something I'm not aware of. It is a older rig so maybe it |
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> isn't SATA's fastest version, maybe even the original or something. I |
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SATA 2 is 3 Gbit/s, so still not saturated by a single HDD. |
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Network transfers are single-core work. If it is really such an old machine, |
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I guess the CPU is the bottleneck again. Do you transfer via ssh? If so, use |
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something else that doesn’t encrypt the transport stream. When I am bound by |
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CPU in such cases (like with my ancient netbook with an Atom N450), and I |
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don’t want to set up a file server (that is nowhere near as flexible as ssh |
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anyways), I use netcat: |
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On the receiving end, start a netcat listener and extract from it: |
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nc -l -p $Portnumber | tar xf - |
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The portnumber must be any number above 1024, if you’re not root. |
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And on the sender, pack all your stuff into a tar (uncompressed!, since |
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videos aren’t compressible further and it will bog down the CPU again) and |
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pipe it to the receiver: |
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tar cf - * | nc $Destination_IP $Portnumber |
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Once the client is done, press Ctrl+C on the receiver. |
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Or maybe use rsync with the rsync-protocol instead of ssh. That’ll be more |
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flexible, because the tar-and-nc method doesn’t know about existing files on |
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the receiving end. (But I’ve never tested that approach.) |
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Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ |
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Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. |
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You sould borrow money only from pessimists, because they don’t expect it back. |