keckbug
January 2nd, 2009, 12:38 PM
After dabbling with ubuntu and linux for a while, I've jumped in and setup a home NAS box. It's an AMD dual-core, 2 gigs of memory, and a RAID-5 array of 4 1TB hard drives. RAID is setup, functional and showing 115MB/s on an hdparm -t /dev/md0. Samba is configured, simple anonymous read/write access and my vista client can connect and use the share. The OS is Ubuntu 8.10 Server 64bit.
My problems arise when I try to stream videos off the share. If I copy them to the local drive they play fine, and they copy plenty fast too. If I try to play a file directly off the shared drive, it stutters and skips. I've linked a similar forum thread, similar setup, and I've gone through and followed those steps.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1048809.html
My ethernet card was the offending driver, so I've switched to the preferred r8168 over the r8169. My smb.conf has the performance-enhancing settings attached. Vista's network auto-tuning is disabled.
I've monitored top and iostat while loading a video, and cpu usage is well under 25-30%, hard drive usage is minimal, so it wouldn't seem to be capped in any of those ways. Any other thoughts from those who know better than I?
My problems arise when I try to stream videos off the share. If I copy them to the local drive they play fine, and they copy plenty fast too. If I try to play a file directly off the shared drive, it stutters and skips. I've linked a similar forum thread, similar setup, and I've gone through and followed those steps.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1048809.html
My ethernet card was the offending driver, so I've switched to the preferred r8168 over the r8169. My smb.conf has the performance-enhancing settings attached. Vista's network auto-tuning is disabled.
I've monitored top and iostat while loading a video, and cpu usage is well under 25-30%, hard drive usage is minimal, so it wouldn't seem to be capped in any of those ways. Any other thoughts from those who know better than I?