Hi all, I am currently planning a new home file server on a gigabit network that will be utilizing ZFS (on SXDE). The files will be shared via samba as I have a mixed OS environment. The controller card I will be using is the SuperMicro SAT2-MV8 133MHz PCI-X card. I have two options for CPUs/motherboards: AMD Athlon64 3000+ (64 bit) DFI LanParty UT 250gb (NForce 3 based) motherboard 32 bit PCI slots only 2GB RAM or Dual Intel Xeon 1.6GHz CPUs (32 bit) ASUS PCH-DL motherboard PCI-X slots @ 66MHz 2GB RAM I am trying to figure out where my bottleneck will be for file transfers. Will it be the controller card running in a regular PCI slot on the AMD setup? Will it be the 32 bit Intel system? Or will using samba overshadow either of the hardware options? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Matt This message posted from opensolaris.org
I would recommend the 64-bit system, but make sure your controller card will work in it, first. The bottleneck will most likely be the incoming network connection (100MB/s) in any case. Assuming, of course, that you have more than one disk. With the 64-bit system, you''ll run into fewer issues involving VA (virtual address) fragmentation in the kernel, which can sometimes be a problem on 32-bit systems. --Bill On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:00:24PM -0800, Matt wrote:> Hi all, > > I am currently planning a new home file server on a gigabit network > that will be utilizing ZFS (on SXDE). The files will be shared via > samba as I have a mixed OS environment. The controller card I will be > using is the SuperMicro SAT2-MV8 133MHz PCI-X card. I have two > options for CPUs/motherboards: > > AMD Athlon64 3000+ (64 bit) > DFI LanParty UT 250gb (NForce 3 based) motherboard > 32 bit PCI slots only > 2GB RAM > > or > > Dual Intel Xeon 1.6GHz CPUs (32 bit) > ASUS PCH-DL motherboard > PCI-X slots @ 66MHz > 2GB RAM > > I am trying to figure out where my bottleneck will be for file > transfers. Will it be the controller card running in a regular PCI > slot on the AMD setup? Will it be the 32 bit Intel system? Or will > using samba overshadow either of the hardware options? Any > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Matt > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
I used the Asus P5K WS motherboard with 1 PCI-X slot and an Intel E2140 CPU (Core 2 Duo, 1.6 GHz, 64 bits, < 45W). It works fine. With a 8 500 GB drives in a raidz2 array, I''m getting ~160 MB/sec writing and 280 MB/sec reading. See http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2007/10/20/notes-from-installing-opensolaris-snv_72 Samba talking to OS X is kind of slow, but that seems to be the Mac''s fault, and I haven''t had time to do any tuning yet. Scott On 11/10/07, Matt <mrzentz at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I am currently planning a new home file server on a gigabit network that will be utilizing ZFS (on SXDE). The files will be shared via samba as I have a mixed OS environment. The controller card I will be using is the SuperMicro SAT2-MV8 133MHz PCI-X card. I have two options for CPUs/motherboards: > > AMD Athlon64 3000+ (64 bit) > DFI LanParty UT 250gb (NForce 3 based) motherboard > 32 bit PCI slots only > 2GB RAM > > or > > Dual Intel Xeon 1.6GHz CPUs (32 bit) > ASUS PCH-DL motherboard > PCI-X slots @ 66MHz > 2GB RAM > > I am trying to figure out where my bottleneck will be for file transfers. Will it be the controller card running in a regular PCI slot on the AMD setup? Will it be the 32 bit Intel system? Or will using samba overshadow either of the hardware options? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Matt > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >