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Extremely long story short, windows 10 seems to be bottlenecking my Aquantia aqc107 Nic built into my motherboard. When running iperf3 between it and my Nas (truenas 12.0) which also has a 10gbe NIC (intel X520-sr1) I top out at 6.5Gbps. However if I boot ubuntu and run iperf3 from there, I get just over 9Gbps. I've fiddled with all the settings in the configure menu (including setting jumbo frames to 9014 bytes) which got me to the 6.5Gbps (was 3.5-4Gbps with default settings), but just cant figure out what windows is doing with the other ~3Gbps.

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Full specs on my profile, ryzen 5800x with 32gb of 3600 ram, shouldn't be any issues there. Especially considering using my fx-6300 test bench (also on windows 10) with a different 10gbe NIC I was able to get over 9Gbps

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3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Does the speed go up with parallel streams in iperf, or the -p witch?

Actually yes, 4 threads gets me to 9.5Gbps, not sure what that means though

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20 minutes ago, Straxxus said:

Actually yes, 4 threads gets me to 9.5Gbps, not sure what that means though

That means it can copy at 10g just fine, just not over one stream. Shouldn't be a big issue as smb3 multi channel supports multiple streams for file copies.

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14 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

That means it can copy at 10g just fine, just not over one stream. Shouldn't be a big issue as smb3 multi channel supports multiple streams for file copies.

cool, I got down this rabbit hole trying to troubleshoot file copy performance issues from my NAS, so at least I've ruled out the connection now

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