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      erasedhammer @johnpoz
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      @johnpoz
      Ha! I did not realize there was a package. I just ripped iperf3 arm binaries out of a debian 10 package and tossed them on my synology.

      Here are the results. My slowness definitely appears to be my disk array (7.2K RPM 4 Disk RAID 10). pfSense is definitely not the problem, nor my cables.

      
      iperf 3.7
      Linux host 5.11.0-41-generic #45~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 10 10:20:10 UTC 2021 x86_64
      Control connection MSS 1448
      Time: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:23:53 GMT
      Connecting to host 10.10.1.3, port 4444
            Cookie: yumri2t7so3e7y7mnhkgjagiwbdnbbizmwgn
            TCP MSS: 1448 (default)
      [  5] local 10.10.0.2 port 56430 connected to 10.10.1.3 port 4444
      Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks, omitting 0 seconds, 10 second test, tos 0
      [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
      [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   959 Mbits/sec    0    404 KBytes       
      [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    404 KBytes       
      [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    404 KBytes       
      [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec    0    441 KBytes       
      [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    441 KBytes       
      [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    441 KBytes       
      [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    441 KBytes       
      [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    441 KBytes       
      [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    441 KBytes       
      [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec    0    441 KBytes       
      - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      Test Complete. Summary Results:
      [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
      [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0             sender
      [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  receiver
      CPU Utilization: local/sender 1.6% (0.0%u/1.6%s), remote/receiver 15.0% (0.7%u/14.3%s)
      snd_tcp_congestion cubic
      rcv_tcp_congestion cubic
      
      iperf Done.
      
      
      
      iperf 3.7
      Linux host 5.11.0-41-generic #45~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 10 10:20:10 UTC 2021 x86_64
      -----------------------------------------------------------
      Server listening on 4444
      -----------------------------------------------------------
      Time: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:25:10 GMT
      Accepted connection from 10.10.1.3, port 40810
            Cookie: tdn5vofg3yiecbjgvfaxay4wiimdqd4w4rvf
            TCP MSS: 0 (default)
      [  5] local 10.10.0.2 port 4444 connected to 10.10.1.3 port 40812
      Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks, omitting 0 seconds, 10 second test, tos 0
      [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
      [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   108 MBytes   906 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   111 MBytes   933 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  
      [  5]  10.00-10.04  sec  4.23 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  
      - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      Test Complete. Summary Results:
      [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
      [  5] (sender statistics not available)
      [  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  1.09 GBytes   937 Mbits/sec                  receiver
      rcv_tcp_congestion cubic
      
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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @erasedhammer
        last edited by johnpoz

        @erasedhammer said in Iperf testing, same subnet, inconsistent speeds.:

        arm binaries out of a debian 10 package and tossed them on my synology.

        what synology do you have? I was not aware you could just copy the binaries over from a linux distro ;) That would of saved so much time then compiling it myself for dsm7 ;) hehe I found that package myself after I spent a couple of hours getting the dev environment setup, etc..

        Those speeds look fine! But your only seeing 40-60MBps in a file copy.. Are you just using normal SMB file copy?

        Maxed out gig should be able do easy 100MBps

        edit: I have someone streaming something off my nas right not (plex) but just copied over a close to 2GB file from nas to my pc.. Seeing 230ish MBps overall

        speed.jpg

        That is over the 2.5ge connection.

        Over the gig connection

        gig.jpg

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          erasedhammer @johnpoz
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          @johnpoz
          RS819 with DSM 7. Synology already had a lot of the dependencies on there. Just needed the iperf3 binary, libiperf.so.0, and libsctp.so.1.

          SMB3 from Ubuntu 20.04 PC (using rsync). I was doing a backup yesterday of some local vmdk files and 12GB was just chugging along at 40MB/s. Flat out stuck at that speed.
          My local drives are Samsung 980 Pro and the NAS has 4 Seagate Ironwolf Pro 4TB.

          I agree the speeds should be more.

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @erasedhammer
            last edited by johnpoz

            @erasedhammer well sure doesn't seem to be your wire speed.. Those look to be rocking for gig..

            Yeah try something other than rsync? Just like SMB or NFS file copy?

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              erasedhammer @johnpoz
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              @johnpoz

              Copying files through dolphin file manager over SMB3 is the same speed.

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @erasedhammer
                last edited by

                @erasedhammer did this slow down recently? Were you before seeing 100MBps file copies?

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                • keyserK
                  keyser Rebel Alliance @johnpoz
                  last edited by

                  @johnpoz Would love to help, but I cannot see the starting posts of the conversation, and some of the details that have been posted.

                  What makes this forum remove some of the initial posts so we can only see later replies (some of which quotes former answers I cannot see either)?

                  Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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                    erasedhammer
                    last edited by

                    @johnpoz
                    I went back and reviewed network interface metrics over the past year, and I replaced my DS218 with the RS819 back in March. All the historical data for the RS819 shows it never exceeded 500Mbit/s. The DS218 historical data shows it hitting 930Mbit/s regularly.

                    One thing that may be the issue is the RS819 has an "Adaptive Load Balancing" feature using its two RJ45 1Gig ports (I guess fake LAGG?). It doesn't require any support for the connected switch.

                    But, then again I believe iperf3 should have shown something if the fake LAGG was the problem.

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @keyser
                      last edited by johnpoz

                      @keyser said in Iperf testing, same subnet, inconsistent speeds.:

                      What makes this forum remove some of the initial posts so we can only see later replies (some of which quotes former answers I cannot see either)?

                      huh? I don't see any deleted posts, and see the first post, etc.. Do you happen to have the OP blocked?

                      edit: could you post up a screenshot of the area where you think something is missing? I can post a screenshot of the whole thread, and you could point out what your missing?

                      pic of thread
                      thread.jpg

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                      • keyserK
                        keyser Rebel Alliance @johnpoz
                        last edited by

                        @johnpoz Okay, that was weird... I didn't block the OP, and in the end I tried Firefox and it worked fine.
                        So cleared my cache for the site completely in chrome and presto - everything is visible...
                        How that can happen is beyond me, but it's working now. Thanks for posting the picture so I could see it was my browser view that was "screwed up" :-)

                        Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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                        • keyserK
                          keyser Rebel Alliance @erasedhammer
                          last edited by keyser

                          @erasedhammer said in Iperf testing, same subnet, inconsistent speeds.:

                          I've been trying to nail down for a while why my LAN speeds (PC to NAS) were always stuck at around 40-60MB/s.

                          Doing some iperf testing between my PC and pfsense (so local subnet):

                          PC to Pfsense:
                          iperf 3.7
                          Linux host 5.11.0-41-generic #45~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 10 10:20:10 UTC 2021 x86_64
                          Control connection MSS 1448
                          Time: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:52:12 GMT
                          Connecting to host 10.10.0.1, port 4444
                                Cookie: phntfxguuude3t4vnhys7yqikgmhupgl6ygc
                                TCP MSS: 1448 (default)
                          [  5] local 10.10.0.2 port 53916 connected to 10.10.0.1 port 4444
                          Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks, omitting 0 seconds, 10 second test, tos 0
                          [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
                          [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   113 MBytes   947 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    153 KBytes       
                          - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
                          Test Complete. Summary Results:
                          [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
                          [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   942 Mbits/sec    0             sender
                          [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  receiver
                          CPU Utilization: local/sender 3.5% (0.4%u/3.0%s), remote/receiver 67.7% (12.9%u/54.9%s)
                          snd_tcp_congestion cubic
                          rcv_tcp_congestion newreno
                          
                          iperf Done.
                          
                          
                          
                          Pfsense to PC:
                          iperf 3.10.1
                          FreeBSD host 12.2-STABLE FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE plus-RELENG_21_05_2-n202579-3b8ea9b365a pfSense amd64
                          Control connection MSS 1460
                          Time: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:52:49 UTC
                          Connecting to host 10.10.0.2, port 4444
                                Cookie: rwbdamlfvghiksxmgxi27ii2u4leuthzhab3
                                TCP MSS: 1460 (default)
                          [  5] local 10.10.0.1 port 64301 connected to 10.10.0.2 port 4444
                          Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks, omitting 0 seconds, 10 second test, tos 0
                          [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
                          [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  71.8 MBytes  71.8 MBytes/sec  3283   24.1 KBytes       
                          [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  53.9 MBytes  54.0 MBytes/sec  2376   27.0 KBytes       
                          [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  71.4 MBytes  71.4 MBytes/sec  3194   1.41 KBytes       
                          [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  70.8 MBytes  70.8 MBytes/sec  3267   18.4 KBytes       
                          [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  73.3 MBytes  73.3 MBytes/sec  3180   1.41 KBytes       
                          [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  64.8 MBytes  64.8 MBytes/sec  2952   25.6 KBytes       
                          [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  69.1 MBytes  69.1 MBytes/sec  3275   2.83 KBytes       
                          [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  52.5 MBytes  52.5 MBytes/sec  2537   1.41 KBytes       
                          [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  69.9 MBytes  69.9 MBytes/sec  3296   25.6 KBytes       
                          [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  68.6 MBytes  68.6 MBytes/sec  3144   1.41 KBytes       
                          - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
                          Test Complete. Summary Results:
                          [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
                          [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec   666 MBytes  66.6 MBytes/sec  30504             sender
                          [  5]   0.00-10.21  sec   666 MBytes  65.2 MBytes/sec                  receiver
                          CPU Utilization: local/sender 57.0% (1.7%u/55.3%s), remote/receiver 12.0% (1.7%u/10.3%s)
                          snd_tcp_congestion newreno
                          rcv_tcp_congestion cubic
                          
                          iperf Done.
                          

                          Pfsense interface information:

                          ix1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                          	description: Admin
                          	options=e138bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
                          	capabilities=f53fbb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,NETMAP,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
                          	ether 00:08:a2:0f:13:b1
                          	inet6 fe80::208:a2ff:fe0f:13b1%ix1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                          	inet 10.10.0.1 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 10.10.0.15
                          	media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex,rxpause,txpause>)
                          	status: active
                          	supported media:
                          		media autoselect
                          		media 1000baseSX
                          		media 10Gbase-SR
                          	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
                          	plugged: SFP/SFP+/SFP28 10G Base-SR (LC)
                          	vendor: QSFPTEK PN: QT-SFP-10G-T SN: QT202003110117 DATE: 2020-11-25
                          	module temperature: 51.25 C Voltage: 3.30 Volts
                          	RX: 0.40 mW (-3.98 dBm) TX: 0.50 mW (-3.01 dBm)
                          
                          	SFF8472 DUMP (0xA0 0..127 range):
                          	03 04 07 10 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 06 67 00 00 00
                          	1E 1E 00 1E 51 53 46 50 54 45 4B 20 20 20 20 20
                          	20 20 20 20 00 00 1B 21 51 54 2D 53 46 50 2D 31
                          	30 47 2D 54 20 20 20 20 47 32 2E 33 03 52 00 20
                          	00 3A 00 00 51 54 32 30 32 30 30 33 31 31 30 31
                          	31 37 20 20 32 30 31 31 32 35 20 20 68 F8 03 3F
                          	00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                          	00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                          

                          Physical topology is my PC connected to a dumb gigabit switch, then connected through a ~50ft cat5e cable to an RJ45 SFP+ connector on my Netgate xg-7100

                          The tests seem to be almost identical, but why is the "download" to my PC not hitting full gigabit?

                          Your problem is the SFP+ RJ45 tranciever in your pfSense. You can do full GigE from NAS to and from pfSense, you can only do full GigE to but not from pfSense to your PC.
                          I have had millions of issues with SFP+ trancievers (especially 10Gbe) in several pfSense boxes where one direction is fine, the other is not.
                          I realize yours is a RJ45 1Gbe SFP+ adapter, but that still plugs as a 10Gbe tranciever, so I would expect it to be sensitive to the very same problems.

                          Try wiring your PC to one of the 1Gbe Switch ports instead. Then you NAS <-> pfSense <-> PC iPerf and SMB filecopy will show full GigE i both directions :-)

                          Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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                            Did I miss something? The original post shows about 30k retries. That is a dirty connection. iperf has done its job and pointed to the problem.

                            For reference I have trouble getting a copy on all flash NetApps to run faster than about 2 to 3 Gb/s when doing a file copy with large files. These systems are running clean LACP 2x10Gb. In aggregate they easily exceed 10Gb, but when reading/writing to a single file system they are limited to how the file table works, block allocation is single threaded.
                            Assuming you are all flash, it is still consumer level HW not backed by plenty of cache. Windows and Linux are not optimized in a way to make file transfers super fast. Just a guess, but I doubt Synology NAS systems are actually highly optimized Linux systems. Meaning you are limited by other things in the OS and file system management.
                            Watch for the write cliff with SSDs. They all run at blazing speed then hit a cliff and performance falls off dramatically.
                            Networking and pfSense are a hobby, storage has fed the family for 20 years.

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                              keyser Rebel Alliance @AndyRH
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                              @andyrh said in Iperf testing, same subnet, inconsistent speeds.:

                              Did I miss something? The original post shows about 30k retries. That is a dirty connection. iperf has done its job and pointed to the problem.

                              For reference I have trouble getting a copy on all flash NetApps to run faster than about 2 to 3 Gb/s when doing a file copy with large files. These systems are running clean LACP 2x10Gb. In aggregate they easily exceed 10Gb, but when reading/writing to a single file system they are limited to how the file table works, block allocation is single threaded.
                              Assuming you are all flash, it is still consumer level HW not backed by plenty of cache. Windows and Linux are not optimized in a way to make file transfers super fast. Just a guess, but I doubt Synology NAS systems are actually highly optimized Linux systems. Meaning you are limited by other things in the OS and file system management.
                              Watch for the write cliff with SSDs. They all run at blazing speed then hit a cliff and performance falls off dramatically.
                              Networking and pfSense are a hobby, storage has fed the family for 20 years.

                              Exactly, that is very very likely caused by the SFP+ -> RJ45 tranciever.

                              For the record: One of these NAS's with 4 spinning drives in Raid 5/6 will do 112 MB/s (Full GigE) easily in any somewhat sequential workload - even with copying thousands of files as long as they are 1 MB+ in size and the drives does not get bogged down in filetable updates.

                              Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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                                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @keyser
                                last edited by johnpoz

                                The nas and PC are connected to dumb switch.. The sfp connection doesn't come into play when pc talking to nas

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Are you sure? Why do we have only the ix1 info then? That could be connected to the switch, no?

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                                  • johnpozJ
                                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @stephenw10
                                    last edited by johnpoz

                                    @stephenw10 said in Iperf testing, same subnet, inconsistent speeds.:

                                    Are you sure?

                                    No not really.. But seems more logical.. And if the sfp was problematic, he would of seen that issue when testing between pc and nas.

                                    Where is the nas connected if the pc is directly connected to the pfsense.. He makes no mention of bridge, etc. And that the pc and nas are on the same network.

                                    The port of on his pfsense is the uplink from the switch..

                                    And when stated that pfsense is not part of the conversation between pc and nas he agreed, etc. So to me the pc and nas are connected to the switch, like any normal setup.

                                    Look at his tests between pc and nas - his wire speed is not the issue for his slow file copies.

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                                      erasedhammer @johnpoz
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                                      @johnpoz

                                      I should probably clarify, My setup is not exactly standard.

                                      My NAS is connected to the built in marvel switch on my XG-7100. My PC is connected to a 5 port dumb switch, which is then connected to the SFP+ port on pfsense.

                                      Here's a drawing so we don't get confused.

                                      drawing.PNG

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                                        erasedhammer @erasedhammer
                                        last edited by erasedhammer

                                        Just to add another data point. I tried scp a file of random junk, both 500MB and 1GB to both the synology flash disk and the RAID array and got the same speeds:

                                        1GB scp to RAID array:
                                        Screenshot_20211214_133608.png

                                        500MB to /tmp :
                                        Screenshot_20211214_133828-500mb.png

                                        The original iperf3 test I did from synology I actually copied the results from the server side, so it omitted the retries. Here is the PC to NAS and NAS to PC iperf tests again:

                                        PC to NAS
                                        NAS# iperf3 -V -s -p 4444
                                        PC#  iperf3 -V -c 10.10.1.3 -p 4444
                                        
                                        Output from PC:
                                        iperf 3.7
                                        Linux PC 5.11.0-41-generic #45~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 10 10:20:10 UTC 2021 x86_64
                                        Control connection MSS 1448
                                        Time: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:45:40 GMT
                                        Connecting to host 10.10.1.3, port 4444
                                              Cookie: v3oma5g64ia6jxp36hk4grhdfn2sb3j6xval
                                              TCP MSS: 1448 (default)
                                        [  5] local 10.10.0.2 port 35896 connected to 10.10.1.3 port 4444
                                        Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks, omitting 0 seconds, 10 second test, tos 0
                                        [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
                                        [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   957 Mbits/sec    0    355 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   938 Mbits/sec    0    355 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   113 MBytes   946 Mbits/sec    0    373 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec    0    373 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec    0    373 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec    0    393 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   113 MBytes   947 Mbits/sec    0    393 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    410 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    410 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    410 KBytes       
                                        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
                                        Test Complete. Summary Results:
                                        [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
                                        [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0             sender
                                        [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  receiver
                                        CPU Utilization: local/sender 1.5% (0.0%u/1.5%s), remote/receiver 18.7% (0.8%u/17.8%s)
                                        snd_tcp_congestion cubic
                                        rcv_tcp_congestion cubic
                                        
                                        iperf Done.
                                        
                                        NAS to PC
                                        PC#  iperf3 -V -s -p 4444
                                        NAS# iperf3 -V -c 10.10.0.2 -p 4444
                                        
                                        Output from NAS: 
                                        iperf 3.6
                                        Linux NAS 4.4.180+ #42218 SMP Mon Oct 18 19:16:01 CST 2021 aarch64
                                        Control connection MSS 1448
                                        Time: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:46:41 GMT
                                        Connecting to host 10.10.0.2, port 4444
                                              Cookie: 5cn3v22hqr5wpyglpotmt2g63zf7kfxyntov
                                              TCP MSS: 1448 (default)
                                        [  5] local 10.10.1.3 port 41532 connected to 10.10.0.2 port 4444
                                        Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks, omitting 0 seconds, 10 second test, tos 0
                                        [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
                                        [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   957 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   111 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                        [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec   11    314 KBytes       
                                        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
                                        Test Complete. Summary Results:
                                        [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
                                        [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   941 Mbits/sec   11             sender
                                        [  5]   0.00-10.03  sec  1.09 GBytes   936 Mbits/sec                  receiver
                                        CPU Utilization: local/sender 7.1% (0.0%u/7.1%s), remote/receiver 16.2% (2.0%u/14.3%s)
                                        snd_tcp_congestion cubic
                                        rcv_tcp_congestion cubic
                                        
                                        iperf Done.
                                        

                                        NAS to PC did have a few retires, nothing more than 20 per interval. Done a second time I get only 10-20 retires over all the intervals.

                                        I am at a loss for what is the bottleneck here. I get the same speeds to the synology onboard flash as the RAID array? but its not full gigabit, yet iperf shows the network is not the problem?

                                        It seems if I use any actual application that transfers data (ssh, rsync, smb) then I don't see full gigabit...

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                                        • keyserK
                                          keyser Rebel Alliance @erasedhammer
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                                          @erasedhammer said in Iperf testing, same subnet, inconsistent speeds.:

                                          Just to add another data point. I tried scp a file of random junk, both 500MB and 1GB to both the synology flash disk and the RAID array and got the same speeds:

                                          1GB scp to RAID array:
                                          Screenshot_20211214_133608.png

                                          500MB to /tmp :
                                          Screenshot_20211214_133828-500mb.png

                                          The original iperf3 test I did from synology I actually copied the results from the server side, so it omitted the retries. Here is the PC to NAS and NAS to PC iperf tests again:

                                          PC to NAS
                                          NAS# iperf3 -V -s -p 4444
                                          PC#  iperf3 -V -c 10.10.1.3 -p 4444
                                          
                                          Output from PC:
                                          iperf 3.7
                                          Linux PC 5.11.0-41-generic #45~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 10 10:20:10 UTC 2021 x86_64
                                          Control connection MSS 1448
                                          Time: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:45:40 GMT
                                          Connecting to host 10.10.1.3, port 4444
                                                Cookie: v3oma5g64ia6jxp36hk4grhdfn2sb3j6xval
                                                TCP MSS: 1448 (default)
                                          [  5] local 10.10.0.2 port 35896 connected to 10.10.1.3 port 4444
                                          Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks, omitting 0 seconds, 10 second test, tos 0
                                          [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
                                          [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   957 Mbits/sec    0    355 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   938 Mbits/sec    0    355 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   113 MBytes   946 Mbits/sec    0    373 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec    0    373 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec    0    373 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec    0    393 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   113 MBytes   947 Mbits/sec    0    393 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    410 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    410 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    410 KBytes       
                                          - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
                                          Test Complete. Summary Results:
                                          [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
                                          [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0             sender
                                          [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  receiver
                                          CPU Utilization: local/sender 1.5% (0.0%u/1.5%s), remote/receiver 18.7% (0.8%u/17.8%s)
                                          snd_tcp_congestion cubic
                                          rcv_tcp_congestion cubic
                                          
                                          iperf Done.
                                          
                                          NAS to PC
                                          PC#  iperf3 -V -s -p 4444
                                          NAS# iperf3 -V -c 10.10.0.2 -p 4444
                                          
                                          Output from NAS: 
                                          iperf 3.6
                                          Linux NAS 4.4.180+ #42218 SMP Mon Oct 18 19:16:01 CST 2021 aarch64
                                          Control connection MSS 1448
                                          Time: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:46:41 GMT
                                          Connecting to host 10.10.0.2, port 4444
                                                Cookie: 5cn3v22hqr5wpyglpotmt2g63zf7kfxyntov
                                                TCP MSS: 1448 (default)
                                          [  5] local 10.10.1.3 port 41532 connected to 10.10.0.2 port 4444
                                          Starting Test: protocol: TCP, 1 streams, 131072 byte blocks, omitting 0 seconds, 10 second test, tos 0
                                          [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
                                          [  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   957 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   111 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   112 MBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    375 KBytes       
                                          [  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec   11    314 KBytes       
                                          - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
                                          Test Complete. Summary Results:
                                          [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
                                          [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   941 Mbits/sec   11             sender
                                          [  5]   0.00-10.03  sec  1.09 GBytes   936 Mbits/sec                  receiver
                                          CPU Utilization: local/sender 7.1% (0.0%u/7.1%s), remote/receiver 16.2% (2.0%u/14.3%s)
                                          snd_tcp_congestion cubic
                                          rcv_tcp_congestion cubic
                                          
                                          iperf Done.
                                          

                                          NAS to PC did have a few retires, nothing more than 20 per interval. Done a second time I get only 10-20 retires over all the intervals.

                                          I am at a loss for what is the bottleneck here. I get the same speeds to the synology onboard flash as the RAID array? but its not full gigabit, yet iperf shows the network is not the problem?

                                          It seems if I use any actual application that transfers data (ssh, rsync, smb) then I don't see full gigabit...

                                          Please read My former replies. Your issue is the SFP+ tranciever.

                                          Love the no fuss of using the official appliances :-)

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                                          • AndyRHA
                                            AndyRH
                                            last edited by

                                            2 more questions:

                                            1. Are copper SFP+ supported now?
                                            2. As suggested, there is a chance the SFP+ is at fault. Can you move from IX1 to a switch port for testing? If there is a free port it is not too hard to add/remove VLANs from the ports.

                                            o||||o
                                            7100-1u

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