I have WD ShareSpce 8TB NAS for my photos, video, music and documents. I’ve copied the lot over from my iMac as it was runng out of disk.
The NAS is really slow and the connection keeps dropping. I have a simple script to map the NAS volumes at start up and they fail intermittently. Its driving me mad!
I’ve had a look at the NAS system log and the seesm to be a lot of actvity that, to my untrained eye, seems weird :
Here’ s a quick slice:
10/10 13:28:42 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[3081]: afp_disconnect: primary reconnect succeeded
10/10 13:28:35 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2237]: afp_dsi_transfer_session: succesfull primary reconnect
10/10 13:28:35 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[894]: Reconnect: killing new session child[3081] after transfer
10/10 13:28:35 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[894]: Reconnect: transfering session to child[2237]
10/10 13:28:35 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[3081]: afp_disconnect: trying primary reconnect
10/10 13:28:35 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[3081]: AFP3.3 Login by GDSServer
10/10 13:23:05 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2760]: afp_disconnect: primary reconnect succeeded
10/10 13:22:58 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2237]: afp_dsi_transfer_session: succesfull primary reconnect
10/10 13:22:58 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[894]: Reconnect: killing new session child[2760] after transfer
10/10 13:22:58 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[894]: Reconnect: transfering session to child[2237]
10/10 13:22:58 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2760]: afp_disconnect: trying primary reconnect
10/10 13:22:58 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2760]: AFP3.3 Login by GDSServer
10/10 13:17:45 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2436]: afp_disconnect: primary reconnect succeeded
10/10 13:17:38 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2237]: afp_dsi_transfer_session: succesfull primary reconnect
10/10 13:17:38 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[894]: Reconnect: killing new session child[2436] after transfer
10/10 13:17:38 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[894]: Reconnect: transfering session to child[2237]
10/10 13:17:38 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2436]: afp_disconnect: trying primary reconnect
10/10 13:17:37 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2436]: AFP3.3 Login by GDSServer
10/10 13:14:47 LargeNAS daemon.warn afpd[2237]: volume “GDSServer” does not support Extended Attributes, using ea:ad instead
10/10 13:14:47 LargeNAS daemon.warn afpd[2237]: volume “graham” does not support Extended Attributes, using ea:ad instead
10/10 13:14:47 LargeNAS daemon.warn afpd[2237]: volume “Download” does not support Extended Attributes, using ea:ad instead
10/10 13:14:47 LargeNAS daemon.warn afpd[2237]: volume “Public” does not support Extended Attributes, using ea:ad instead
10/10 13:14:47 LargeNAS daemon.notice afpd[2237]: AFP3.3 Login by GDSServer
10/10 13:12:16 LargeNAS syslog.info miocrawler: === mc_trans_updater_init() …Done.
10/10 13:12:16 LargeNAS syslog.info miocrawler: mc_trans_updater_init() …
10/10 13:12:16 LargeNAS syslog.info miocrawler: === inotify init done.
10/10 13:12:15 LargeNAS syslog.info miocrawler: === mcUtilsInit() Done.
10/10 13:12:15 LargeNAS syslog.info miocrawler: mcUtilsInit() Creating free queue pool
10/10 13:12:15 LargeNAS syslog.info miocrawler: === mc_db_init …Done.
10/10 13:12:15 LargeNAS daemon.info wixEvent[932]: System Startup - System startup.
Other useful info:
the NAS volume shares are mapped using afp
the router i’m using is an EA4500
all firmware on the router and NAS are up to date
I have temp disabled the iMac firewall for the moment
all other router services are fine (e.g. internet access)
Have i just got a useless slow NAS and should I ditch it or can i do something to make it faster and more reliable ?
any help appreciated.
