[OmniOS-discuss] Networking Performance Tips on HP Microserver N40L ?

[Dan McDonald]

On Mar 26, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson <svavar at januar.is> wrote:

> Hello people.
> I recently installed my first true NAS box at home, which is a HP Microserver N40L
> with 16GB in RAM, 1x250GB for OS and 4x 2TB Enterprise SATA disks provided by HP in a RAIDZ.
> 
> I'm using the newest/updated OmniOS v11 r151008 and also Napp-it and other services.
> What I would like to know is, have there been any issues/problems and do people
> have some performance tuning tips regarding networking issues on the BC5723 controller provided
> by the HP Microserver ? It's the bge module/driver ?
> 
> Sometimes I find the speeds to the BOX will rock up & down. I haven't configured
> a gigabit network, thats on the plan this weekend. I have full-duplex and flowctrl enabled.
> For an example, I noticed after building my small ipf firewall rules and enabled the firewall
> the speed did go down, specially with CIFS and NFS(didn't test the AFP).

Was performance okay pre-ipf?  If so, it's probably ipf that's tripping you up.

> So, any performance tips out there ?

I have to ask, are you using ipf to protect the box?  Or for NAT?  If just to protect the box, you may be able to use something NOT ipf to help you out, depending on the problem(s) you're trying to solve.

Dan