Dear all,
Sorry for an ambiguous title and thread as i have just put up an itx machine to try on the proxmox platform, was aniticipating a great upgrade from my old HP microserver Gen7 (ESXi) to the proxmox LXC container world. but resulting in a confused and disappointing week due to my lack of knowledge in all these new technologies (proxmox, lxc, zfs....)
i was happy setting up the environment as my media server and a couple of home hosted services, and finding the light weight lxc fun and enjoyable, i'm ending up finding my platform performing badly and not even usable on the most basic streaming. my platform hardware:
CPU: Intel G5400
RAM: 16GB
OS disk: nvme M.2 128G (ext4)
media disks: 2 x WD blue 4TB (zfs raid1/mirror)
i have a couple lxc running now and used bind mount point to mount my zfs media drive to the containers for media access, i have found that i can SAMBA transfer to my laptop in normal speed (11-12MB/90-100Mb) or rsync from "media disks (zfs)" > "OS disk (ext4)" at around (170MB/s). but when i'm trying to stream videos, it just buffers of shows broken frames in an unusable manner. Even putting the jellyfin transcoding away, just by using DLNA, i found that my network interface only runs at about 1-2Mb and video also unusble. totally no idea why and maybe my zfs pool is poor in performance? (but at least samba/rsync can run quicker)
(tried both plex and jellyfin, was on plex and unusable so tried to switch to jellyfin)
below is my log from jellyfin and my rsync:
my pveperf:
root@pve:~# pveperf
CPU BOGOMIPS: 29568.00
REGEX/SECOND: 3651831
HD SIZE: 28.91 GB (/dev/mapper/pve-root)
BUFFERED READS: 441.11 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 0.15 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND: 3813.72
DNS EXT: 48.18 ms
DNS INT: 136.61 ms (kservel.invalid)
root@pve:~# pveperf /WD_4T/
CPU BOGOMIPS: 29568.00
REGEX/SECOND: 3555613
HD SIZE: 1978.41 GB (WD_4T)
FSYNCS/SECOND: 77.21
DNS EXT: 113.61 ms
DNS INT: 241.78 ms (kservel.invalid)
I'm not sure about if the DNS resolve time is a factor, i'm using my mikrotik router as the local dns and i totally don't understand why the resolve time is such slow here, and what does the DNS INT mean cuz i dont run a local domain.
If any of you are experience on such symptom, please give me a hand. i'm totally clueless now.
Thank you!!
Kenny
Sorry for an ambiguous title and thread as i have just put up an itx machine to try on the proxmox platform, was aniticipating a great upgrade from my old HP microserver Gen7 (ESXi) to the proxmox LXC container world. but resulting in a confused and disappointing week due to my lack of knowledge in all these new technologies (proxmox, lxc, zfs....)
i was happy setting up the environment as my media server and a couple of home hosted services, and finding the light weight lxc fun and enjoyable, i'm ending up finding my platform performing badly and not even usable on the most basic streaming. my platform hardware:
CPU: Intel G5400
RAM: 16GB
OS disk: nvme M.2 128G (ext4)
media disks: 2 x WD blue 4TB (zfs raid1/mirror)
i have a couple lxc running now and used bind mount point to mount my zfs media drive to the containers for media access, i have found that i can SAMBA transfer to my laptop in normal speed (11-12MB/90-100Mb) or rsync from "media disks (zfs)" > "OS disk (ext4)" at around (170MB/s). but when i'm trying to stream videos, it just buffers of shows broken frames in an unusable manner. Even putting the jellyfin transcoding away, just by using DLNA, i found that my network interface only runs at about 1-2Mb and video also unusble. totally no idea why and maybe my zfs pool is poor in performance? (but at least samba/rsync can run quicker)
(tried both plex and jellyfin, was on plex and unusable so tried to switch to jellyfin)
below is my log from jellyfin and my rsync:
my pveperf:
root@pve:~# pveperf
CPU BOGOMIPS: 29568.00
REGEX/SECOND: 3651831
HD SIZE: 28.91 GB (/dev/mapper/pve-root)
BUFFERED READS: 441.11 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 0.15 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND: 3813.72
DNS EXT: 48.18 ms
DNS INT: 136.61 ms (kservel.invalid)
root@pve:~# pveperf /WD_4T/
CPU BOGOMIPS: 29568.00
REGEX/SECOND: 3555613
HD SIZE: 1978.41 GB (WD_4T)
FSYNCS/SECOND: 77.21
DNS EXT: 113.61 ms
DNS INT: 241.78 ms (kservel.invalid)
I'm not sure about if the DNS resolve time is a factor, i'm using my mikrotik router as the local dns and i totally don't understand why the resolve time is such slow here, and what does the DNS INT mean cuz i dont run a local domain.
If any of you are experience on such symptom, please give me a hand. i'm totally clueless now.
Thank you!!
Kenny
