10GbE network performance help

[leadeater]

Awesome, well I did exactly that.  So my AMD processor without any hyperthreading was my bottleneck with only get 750MB/s transfers.  I tried a hex core intel processor with hyperthreading allow me to get more RSS Queues, and I got 1GB/s transfers.  So that answers the question of whether hardware is a bottleneck for the x540 T1 NIC or not.

 

Now I'm trying different Operating Systems.  The Server 2012 R2 operating system doesn't support my 1GbE on board connection and a number of other devices that I'm unaware of, so I'm trying Windows 10 as a more user friendly and familiar platform.  I want to see if I can get the same speeds so I can utilize the onboard features, and opt out of the Server/Domain features I don't need in my home network.

 

Here's my issue starting from the install.  Everything installs correctly from what I can tell, but I started seeing ridiculous lag when setting up Windows 10 (havn't seen it on my upgrade from win 7 to 10).  I eventually get logged into Windows 10 on the "server" case, and I find that I'm still getting lag.  I opened task manager, and found 100% utilization of my disk (my OS hard drive to be exact).  I've tried everything I can find on the internet, disable super fetch, prefetch, disable alerts of all kinds, installed drivers for the motherboard chipset and SATA controllers, updated BIOS, checked firmware on my SSD, and a handful of other things short of registry edits.

 

I'm going to attempt a restore, and if that doesn't work another fresh install.  Beyond that I don't know what to do.  I have one other SSD to try if all else fails, but this seems like a big Microsoft mess up.

 

Could be the first Windows Updates scan doing that after install etc, see if it settles down after 30 mins and then a reboot.

 

Also any missing hardware drivers under Server 2012 R2 can be fixed with Windows 8.1 drivers, they are the same OS and I know it works. Used to run both my Asus Rampage III Formula and my Asus Rampage IV Black on Server 2012 R2, takes a bit of tweaking and manual driver installs but can be done. Sometimes rather than getting the driver from Asus you have to get it directly from the chip maker e.g. realtek.

 

Anyway glad to hear you found the issue and can enjoy the full wonders of 10Gb

[Strikermed]

That's good to know for future reference.  I did a reinstall on the same SSD and the issue disappeared.  It later resurfaced as I went through a series of resets due to troubleshooting hardware (this could have been an accidental reset during a windows update).  I reinstalled on another SSD, and I don't have the issue, but I'm going to be doing some troubleshooting, and we will see if it will resurface.

 

I am having issue with my RAID controller detecting HDD's now.  I stupidly added 2 drives (2 GB WD Black same as my current RAID) to my current RAID 0 setup, thinking I could just destroy the raid and create a new one, but things were quirky.  I now can't get drives to detect at times.

 

I went through and separately formatted via computer management to create allocated space on the drives.  I've been able to get the drives from the original RAID on the controller to detect, and now I get random intermittent detection from the other 2 on slot 3 and 4.  I think my main problem is one of the drives not detecting.  It's strange though, I can get it to detect in slot 3, but not in slot 4 on the RAID card, but I can get the other to register just fine in slot 4, but when it registers the other won't register. 

 

Is there a simple way to wipe and hardrive so it's prepared for a RAID controller to use?  I think that's the source of my problem...  Essentially these aren't brand new drives, and I need to prep them so they look like brand new drives for the controller to better utilize.

[leadeater]

That's good to know for future reference.  I did a reinstall on the same SSD and the issue disappeared.  It later resurfaced as I went through a series of resets due to troubleshooting hardware (this could have been an accidental reset during a windows update).  I reinstalled on another SSD, and I don't have the issue, but I'm going to be doing some troubleshooting, and we will see if it will resurface.

 

I am having issue with my RAID controller detecting HDD's now.  I stupidly added 2 drives (2 GB WD Black same as my current RAID) to my current RAID 0 setup, thinking I could just destroy the raid and create a new one, but things were quirky.  I now can't get drives to detect at times.

 

I went through and separately formatted via computer management to create allocated space on the drives.  I've been able to get the drives from the original RAID on the controller to detect, and now I get random intermittent detection from the other 2 on slot 3 and 4.  I think my main problem is one of the drives not detecting.  It's strange though, I can get it to detect in slot 3, but not in slot 4 on the RAID card, but I can get the other to register just fine in slot 4, but when it registers the other won't register. 

 

Is there a simple way to wipe and hardrive so it's prepared for a RAID controller to use?  I think that's the source of my problem...  Essentially these aren't brand new drives, and I need to prep them so they look like brand new drives for the controller to better utilize.

 

Plug them in to a sata port on the motherboard then using command prompt go in to diskpart, select the disk and then use the clean command. That will wipe everything from it and make it look exactly as if it was a new disk.

[Strikermed]

Excellent that worked perfectly!

 

I'm going to edit my original post to give my whole story for anyone who needs some info on setting up a similar configuration.