To follow up on drzoidberg33’s questions, strictly from the LACP perspective, which LACP switch are you using? There are several on the market which claim to work but it took a lot of work for us (here in the forums) to find one which actually does work.
I ask this because if you have 2x GbE to the Synology with proper LACP, you will get 200 MB/sec. Your performance indicates you have only one of the two strands active implying some tweaking is needed in the switch’s or the Synology’s configuration -OR- the switch you have does not truly support LACP aggregation. (fyi. I went in circles on this for months until sorted out)
PMS is currently 1.5.3.3580 but that’s just updated at the time it was an older version.
Autotagging is enabled.
Library is 150GB or 26k+ photos
The delay is not excessive seconds but I would like when I swipe on the remote the photo to instantly display rather than a loading screen then blurry image and then correct image.
I’ll get the logs I don’t know if there’s any issue as such everything works fine I’m just looking for ideas to tweak the system to make it more responsive.
LACP switch is GS728TPP everything is setup and works fine. The reason I only get 100Mb/s is because I only have 1 gigabit connection on be server. The reason for Link Aggregation is so I don’t get any slow down in the network if I’m transferring large files from my laptop to NAS and the PMS is reading from the NAS. It’s never been an issue but just wanted to make use of the switch features.
Please be careful with 100 Mb versus 100 MB ? If you have a 1GbE connection, you should be getting 100+ MB/sec (typical is 800+ Mbits / sec)
When testing switches for use with PMS and Synology, we found netgears ProSafe series did not implement LACP correctly. Telephone support with their team confirmed it doesn’t. Purchasing a LinkSys, testing it, talking to their tech support to confirm they don’t do it fully either, resulted in returning it as well.
It you’re only getting 100 M bits / sec over a 1000 M bits/sec line, a misconfigured LACP (managed) switch will do that. That was the first thing uncovered in testing.
To test if the NAS-ProSafe is configured right and working for you (we couldn’t make it work with Synology), I would first attempt our first test.
Two hosts, copying/reading the same file (avoids disk i/o interference on the NAS) with output measured. On Page 3 of the thread I referenced, you’ll see the text terminal sessions (Green on black text). Notice the 60-80 MB/sec. If you have minimal LACP compliance, both should receive full 110+ MB/sec. They should ‘share’ some portion of a single strand.
If this works, your next test is to overload the legs from the NAS to the switch (e.g. try to draw 300 MB/sec through a 2 Gbit/sec capable LACP link), watching the output (upload) from the NAS perpective. It should be steady-state at 200+ MB/sec (2+ Gbit/sec).
If you’d like, I can pull open my HP switch definitions again and show you the options. One thing to be careful of: Don’t create a static or a fail-over mode bond. The key point is “802.11ad LACP”
While reading the data, you should be able to unplug one segment, and traffic will not stop. The NAS will register the drop but saturate at 1GbE. When you plug it back in, without human interaction, it should return to 2GbE.
To test if the NAS-ProSafe is configured right and working for you (we couldn’t make it work with Synology), I would first attempt our first test.
Two hosts, copying/reading the same file (avoids disk i/o interference on the NAS) with output measured. On Page 3 of the thread I referenced, you’ll see the text terminal sessions (Green on black text). Notice the 60-80 MB/sec. If you have minimal LACP compliance, both should receive full 110+ MB/sec. They shouldn’t have to ‘share’ some portion of a single strand.
If this works, your next test is to overload the legs from the NAS to the switch (e.g. try to draw 300 MB/sec through a 2 Gbit/sec capable LACP link), watching the output (upload) from the NAS perpective. It should be steady-state at 200+ MB/sec (2+ Gbit/sec).
If you’d like, I can pull open my HP switch definitions again and show you the options. One thing to be careful of: Don’t create a static or a fail-over mode bond. The key point is “802.11ad LACP”
While reading the data, you should be able to unplug one segment, and traffic will not stop. The NAS will register the drop but saturate at 1GbE. When you plug it back in, without human interaction, it should return to 2GbE.
@ChuckPA Sorry for the delay but I’ve tested this and it works correctly.
If copying the same file from the NAS to 2 different sources both are getting around 111MB/s at the same time. If I pull 1 of the cables then speed drops down to roughly half and I can plug the cable back in and after a few seconds the speeds come back to what they were.
Also just doubled checked speeds while loading photos on a web client and then on the ATV and everything is instant so between server updates it must have fixed.
If i skip through really quickly I can get 1 to load for maybe 1 second before showing.