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swamp2
Jun 22, 2013Tutor
Recent change - crawling slow speed accessing NAS
Although I have been plagued long term by the same problem others have posted about (slow browsing of large NAS directories on Mac OS) my NAS was behaving fairly well for its most common uses - stream...
StephenB
Jun 25, 2013Guru - Experienced User
Ok. So what we know...
-It's not a full OS partition
-The data volume is not full
-There are no reported disk errors
-You see no errors on the network stats
-rebooting the NAS and the PCs makes no difference
-Its not jumbo frames
So the usual suspects all appear to be ruled out.
Maybe check to see if there is a process hogging the NAS CPU? Perhaps run top via ssh, and see what the CPU usage and load averages are. You can also check memory usage.
Another thing you can try is to reboot your router (and maybe power-cycle any switches).
-It's not a full OS partition
-The data volume is not full
-There are no reported disk errors
-You see no errors on the network stats
-rebooting the NAS and the PCs makes no difference
-Its not jumbo frames
So the usual suspects all appear to be ruled out.
Maybe check to see if there is a process hogging the NAS CPU? Perhaps run top via ssh, and see what the CPU usage and load averages are. You can also check memory usage.
Another thing you can try is to reboot your router (and maybe power-cycle any switches).
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