chrizz
Hi!
This might be a quite frequent topic on the "interwebbs", but I've unfortunately not been able to find a proper solution yet, although this seems to be a wide spread issue.
My main objective is to connect via vpn and access a remote directory with php files, and be able to work on these remotely, and also via subversion.
My setup is OpenVPN (via pfSense installed in Xenserver. Csum offloading is disabled, and all that is as good as it gets with a FreeBSD installation in Xenserver) and then mounting my directory locally with NFS (also tried APF, SMB and sshfs). NFS/AFP/SMB/sshfs server is on a FreeNAS box remotely.
Transfer speed with a large file (5GB) is quick; 18MB/s
Transfer speed with many small PHP-files is painfully slow: 200-300kb/s.
That might sound OK, but when using with subversion to make an update or similar it's really slow since it needs to scan the entire dir. That's what seems to take most of the time spent.
sshfs (over the vpn connection) actually is the quickest, but still not enough unfortunately.
Is this just how it is, or is there anything I can do? Is there any other recommended solution where my use case could be satisfied?
Thanks.
CraftyClown
Hi Chrizz,
Not sure if you ever got this sorted, but I'm pretty sure the lack of responses was due to you not posting client and server configs and log files 😉
I'm actually curious about your setup as I transfer large files over SMB and can't get more than 5 MBps, so your 18 would be an absolute delight!
Fancy posting your configs?
