Headcase_Fargone
Limp Gawd
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So I recently built a little Atom-based media server to serve up movies and music to my TVs and phone. I went with this board which was the lowest power solution I could find. In it I have two Samsung "Ecogreen" 5400rpm HDs and a 2GB SO-DIMM.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and everything is going swimmingly except for one nagging issue. Transfer speeds to/from other devices on the LAN are a little on the slow side, capping out right at 20MB/s. By comparison, I typically see about 50MB/s pulling files from the same machine on my big gaming rig. Now, I'm not expecting the same transfer rates on a mini-ITX Atom board as I'm getting on a machine with 6GB of RAM, an i7 CPU and an SSD. But less than half seems a little hard to swallow.
Is there an easy way to track down what the bottleneck might be?
In case it helps, this is the entire configuration:
Intel D945GSEJT with Atom N270 CPU
2GB DDR2 533MHZ
4GB Kingston 133x CompactFlash -> IDE adapter, primary OS installation
2x 1.5TB Samsung F2 HD154UI Ecogreen HDDs
Connected to Netgear WNDR3700 router with built-in gigabit switch with store-bought CAT6 cable.
Transferring from an old P4 2.4GHZ (also running Ubuntu) and an old 7200rpm HDD. I would have thought this was the bottleneck if anything, but I get 50MB/s to my gaming rig from it.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and everything is going swimmingly except for one nagging issue. Transfer speeds to/from other devices on the LAN are a little on the slow side, capping out right at 20MB/s. By comparison, I typically see about 50MB/s pulling files from the same machine on my big gaming rig. Now, I'm not expecting the same transfer rates on a mini-ITX Atom board as I'm getting on a machine with 6GB of RAM, an i7 CPU and an SSD. But less than half seems a little hard to swallow.
Is there an easy way to track down what the bottleneck might be?
In case it helps, this is the entire configuration:
Intel D945GSEJT with Atom N270 CPU
2GB DDR2 533MHZ
4GB Kingston 133x CompactFlash -> IDE adapter, primary OS installation
2x 1.5TB Samsung F2 HD154UI Ecogreen HDDs
Connected to Netgear WNDR3700 router with built-in gigabit switch with store-bought CAT6 cable.
Transferring from an old P4 2.4GHZ (also running Ubuntu) and an old 7200rpm HDD. I would have thought this was the bottleneck if anything, but I get 50MB/s to my gaming rig from it.