[Seeking Volunteers] Bench Testing! Our trip to the best results!

[Sebastian Roth]

@Mokerhamer The installer will ask you which interface you want to configure FOG to. The installer is not capable to assign different functionalities of FOG to different network interfaces. Some can be done manually but it’s not officially supported.

From what I read between the lines I’d suggest you select the interface 192.168.4.1 on installation to have FOG configure all it’s services to this network interface as a start. Using the web UI through 192.168.3.11 should be possible without manual change as Apache does not strictly bind to one interface. Anything else?

[Mokerhamer]

@Sebastian-Roth

Oke going to try it now. Crossing fingers Server is in a isolated network witouth any internet. Due to Nic driver problems (Ubuntu 16) i’m re-installing it on version 18.

[Mokerhamer]

@george1421 @Sebastian-Roth

Only Client is limited with 1GB network card. Current speed with Multicast (18Gb! - Windows 10 Deployment 1:36 LOL)

10GBE network card for client will be here within a hour! Curious what will happen!

[george1421]

@Mokerhamer said in [Seeking Volunteers] Bench Testing! Our trip to the best results!:

Only Client is limited with 1GB network card. Current speed with Multicast (18Gb! - Windows 10 Deployment 1:36 LOL)

My initial reaction is WOW!. My second reaction is its impossible!! (yet it appears possible).

With a 10GB server connection and 1GbE target system connection you are getting 18GB/min that’s 3 times wire speed. I might believe 1.6 to 2.4 times wire speed, where the limiting factor is on the client side. You will need to identify all of the hardware you are using to get these speeds.

Please understand I’m not doubting your results, I’m just having a hard time understand them (plus I’m a bit jealous since I can only get 13.6GB/min with my setup).

[Mokerhamer]

@george1421
@Sebastian-Roth

*ZSTD Compression 16 was used

Dont worry i am doubting everything. I will post a full report of all hardware used. including ZSTD compression report (linke the screenshot above).

Just give me 1 more day so our intern can gather all data from compression 0 - 22 on a full 10 GBE network.

10GBE network can be here any moment

edit: Just received 10GBE Nic. All hardware is now 10GBE

[Junkhacker]

@george1421 i just want to chime in that those speeds seem completely normal to me. that’s what i was getting on a regular basis before i switched the VM host for my FOG server.

[Mokerhamer]

@Junkhacker

Honestly, I’ve not seen multicast this fast. We’re going to seek for the “goldilock” zone IF it exists (Compression level).

[Junkhacker]

@Mokerhamer if you’re really wanting to push things to the limit, you might be interested in helping out with testing/development here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13206/the-future-of-partclone-and-therefore-fog-as-it-is/105

the newest version of partclone will allow us to save images without checksums, decreasing the captured data slightly and increasing compress-ability. my initial testing says it will be about a 10% improvement on compression.

[Mokerhamer]

@Junkhacker
Checking it out!

We had to move our workspace around the office…

Edit: We got sick interns, colleges on vacations having a hard time scraping time together.