TuxRunner

I’ve been noticing that there’s a bit of a performance issue with the new setup (Drobo on a Linux box using NTFS filesystem).  I guess I’m not completely shocked.  I mean, I am basically making a Linux box work with a Windows filesystem, and then also present it as a Windows share on the network (via Samba).  There’s bound to be some tweaking that has to occur.

So far the real bottleneck appears to be related to the NTFS-3G module that facilitates the communication between Linux and the NTFS filesystem on my Drobo.  The wife tried to copy 26 GB of video files over the network to the Drobo, and when I checked “top” on the server, there’s a “mount.ntfs-3g” process that was soaking up 88% CPU, and my load average was about 1.4 – 1.6 (on a dual proc system). (continue reading…)