NSA320 - Slow SMB Write, 75MB Read Speed (Gigabit) (NSA320)

[Fma965]

Hey guys me again so i recently bought a Zyxel NSA320 and installed archlinuxarm (your guide failed, serial was needed to fix, really should be a notice that the install script is unreliable)

Any way. I get around 60-75MB/s on reading from the attached HDD but only around 3-8MB/s write (10MB/s some times)

Here is my SMB.conf file.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = NAS
netbios name = NAS
disable netbios = yes
printcap name = /dev/null
load printers = no
disable spoolss = yes
printing = bsd
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = share
dns proxy = no
map to guest = Bad User
unix extensions = false
oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536
write cache size = 2097152
getwd cache = yes
min receivefile size = 16384
use sendfile = true
aio read size = 16384
aio write size = 16384
public = yes

[Media]
path = /hdd1/media/
read only = no
public = yes
writable = yes
')

Any ideas on the issue? Or on how to increase read speed (surely i should be getting around 20-30 atleast? I have a gigabit network and its clearly working as a gigabit network since the read speed is great.

I am using a EXT4 formatted HDD attached internally to the NSA320 and am running archlinuxARM from a usb pen.

Please suggest a fix, thanks.

[Fma965]

bump

[WarheadsSE]

I am seeing this myself, but haven't had a lot of time, being holidays and all, to look at it.

[Fma965]

hmm, Thanks for confirming the issue, I can use linux and manage basic things but i have tried the obvious things... changing mount options and smb.conf settings, but still nothing. If you find a answer any time please let me know, thanks.

[WarheadsSE]

Can you get me the installed package versions for linux-kirkwood, linux, samba
pacman -Qi <package>

[WarheadsSE]

I downgraded the NSA320 all the way to 3.6.9 for samba and smbclient, this showed no change.

[Fma965]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@alarm ~]# pacman -Qi linux-kirkwood
error: package 'linux-kirkwood' was not found
')
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@alarm ~]# pacman -Qi linux
Name : linux
Version : 3.1.10-28
Description : The Linux Kernel and modules
Architecture : arm
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : None
Provides : kernel26 aufs_friendly cryptodev_friendly
Depends On : coreutils linux-firmware module-init-tools>=3.16
mkinitcpio>=0.7
Optional Deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : kernel26
Replaces : kernel26
Installed Size : 16156.00 KiB
Packager : Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
Build Date : Thu 17 Oct 2013 09:16:31 PM MDT
Install Date : Tue 26 Nov 2013 11:14:08 AM MST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : SHA256 Sum
')

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@alarm ~]# pacman -Qi samba
Name : samba
Version : 4.1.2-1
Description : SMB Fileserver and AD Domain server
Architecture : arm
URL : http://www.samba.org
Licenses : GPL3
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : db>=4.7 popt libcups libcap>=2.16 gamin gnutls>=2.4.1
talloc ldb libbsd python2 tdb iniparser libaio
smbclient>=4.1.2
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 28176.00 KiB
Packager : Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
Build Date : Sat 23 Nov 2013 11:49:42 AM MST
Install Date : Tue 26 Nov 2013 11:23:15 AM MST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : SHA256 Sum
')

So this is defintely not a issue with my setup then? if so thats good because i was going to flash stock and try and see what speeds were like, but i can't as i can't get stock uboot installed (im using davygravy's can some one extract stock uboot for me?) also debian also has really slow samba speeds incase this helps.

[WarheadsSE]

Well, I even went back to kernel 3.10.10 along with samba 3.6.9, nothing changed.

[Fma965]

Hmm, so what is likely to be the problem? Any ideas at all? I also tried different HDD formats just for testing and it was still slow, ext4, ext3 and xfs (although i didn't test xfs on archlinux only on debian)

Also do you happen to have a copy of the stock uBoot for the NSA320 if so i would love to have a copy of it.

Thanks for trying some stuff

[WarheadsSE]

I do have it, but I'd have to dump it.