10:53 <miandonmenmian> do all current images hosted at cubieboard.org include hardware accl?

10:54 <miandonmenmian> last time i checked there was a message mentioning this, cant see this message anymore

14:59 <sgo11> Hi, I have a cubietruck and running official debian server. I setup a samba server on it and use SATA2 cable connected with a hdd. the share directory is in this hdd. hdparm gives 109 MB/s on this hdd and dd command shows 80 MB/s write speed. BUT the samba speed is very slow, about 3 MB/s only. scp speed is only 4 MB/s. I even tried scp user@localhost:file . it still shows 4 MB/s. what is the problem? thanks.

15:04 <FR^2> What's your network connection?

15:07 <sgo11> FR^2, sorry about the late reply. I just read your message. there is no message notification in my IRC client. Does my network connection matter if scp localhost speed is slow? I am using cable connection. I tried the command "scp user@localhost:file .". to the same hdd disk. it's 4 MB/s. this is very slow. not acceptable. thanks.

15:08 <sgo11> I am trying to update the kernel by doing apt-get dist-upgrade. not sure if that will make any difference. I am using the official debian server system.

15:08 <FR^2> Well, if your cable connection is only 10MBit...

15:09 <FR^2> If you have 100MBit, max. speed is a bit more than 10MByte/sec

15:09 <sgo11> FR^2, will scp localhost go through my cable?

15:09 <FR^2> no

15:10 <sgo11> FR^2, then, the problem is nothing related to the cable then. I mentioned that I tried scp localhost in the first post.

15:10 <FR^2> tbh, I don't have any good explanation for your issue. The cable connection is one possible reason why transfer rates are slow

15:11 <sgo11> FR^2, with the command "scp user@localhost:file ." it shows 4 MB/s. hdparm test shows 109 MB/s. dd write shows 80 MB/s. I am very confused too.

15:12 <sgo11> by the way, will apt-get dist-upgrade update the kernel? ARM system might be different. that way will not upgrade my kernel. then there is no need to update then.

15:13 <sgo11> I am reading this topic: http://www.cubieforums.com/index.php/topic,1604.0.html

15:14 <sgo11> the author has the slow samba too with lubuntu (debian based) system. after it changes to Arch linux, the samba performance is good. maybe I should try arch linux.... does official site provide such image?

15:15 <FR^2> scp localhost - what sense does that make?

15:15 <FR^2> sgo11: There is no archlinux image, but a good page with instructions

15:16 <FR^2> http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/allwinner/cubietruck

15:16 <sgo11> FR^2, it does not make sense except I am trying to debug my slow issue. I am trying to see if that is because of my cable connection or networking kernel inside that OS has some problem. then, my guess is correct. scp user@localhost:file ./ has the same slow issue. then, my problem is nothing related to the cable connection.

15:18 <FR^2> maybe try without encryption and only network transfer (without reading from disc), e.g. transferring /dev/zero via network, just to make sure my suggestion is wrong :)

15:18 <sgo11> I never use archlinux before. is that good? what is the difference btw archlinux and gentoo?

15:19 <sgo11> btw, I never use gentoo too. :)

15:19 <sgo11> FR^2, how can I do that? transfer /dev/zero via network? thanks.

15:20 <FR^2> For a long time I have been using gentoo. Although I like the gentoo way (you can specify any configurable options of each package) but in the last few years it lacks support/package maintenance.

15:21 <FR^2> http://serverfault.com/questions/98858/how-to-find-the-bottleneck-while-transferring-huge-files-between-2-hosts

15:22 <FR^2> For about two years I've been using more and more archlinux. Good package maintenance, rolling release, community provided additional packages, ...

15:23 <FR^2> I only got an old server I still haven't reinstalled that runs gentoo.

15:23 <FR^2> even my USB Armory runs archlinux :D (well, I'm a fan, and why use different things at the same time?)

15:25 <sgo11> FR^2, I just did "dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=100 | ssh user@localhost dd of=/dev/null". it shows 6.5 MB/s.

15:26 <sgo11> I don't know what the final nc test does. trying to figure out how to run those command.

15:27 <sgo11> anyway. I think I just try archlinux first. this is just very weird.

15:28 <FR^2> if you have a spare microSD, why not :)

15:30 <sgo11> FR^2, yeah, I got one. let me see where I put it. :) by the way, how to install and remove a package in archlinux? thanks.

15:36 <FR^2> pacman -S <pkg> - there's a gui named "octopi"

15:41 <sgo11> FR^2, thanks a lot. I don't need a gui. after following the instruction you gave to me, will it boot to console mode by default? or will it run xserver by default? thanks.

15:48 <FR^2> until you've installed xorg, there won't be any xorg ;)

15:48 <sgo11> FR^2, that's cool. :)

16:35 <sgo11> FR^2 is quit. who can help me on archlinux? after following the online instruction, I only get two penguins on the monitor. the system can not be booted.

16:39 <sgo11> http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=9037

16:40 <sgo11> this is the exactly the situation I met.