So i ordered a couple of pci-e network cards one for my machine and one for the girls tower. Let’s see if that helps the eldest’s one game not crash the entire networking stack…:) Realteks are decent if you aren’t doing heavy networking stuff like I am doing..it will take a couple of weeks for them to come in(ordered from mainland china on the boat).
Now for the Gamecache update. I really didn’t need to do this..but i figured why not? I moved my battle.net games(which are the only ones i play…being SC2 and D3)…to my own iscsi target on the FreeNAS. It’s a total of 40 gigs…but it’s 40 gigs i do not have to download again when i scrub my computer(which I am going to be doing soon as I am having weird video issues…had similar issues on the girls tower and a scrub fixed them).
My workstation actually runs nearly everything off the FreeNAs in one way or another. My Douments, Music, videos, Downloads actually run from an SMB share. I use most of the files myself and there’s many that are used to rebuild internal machines when they get scrubbed. What does the gamecache give me that the smb share doesn’t? First, is speed. SMB is not multi-threaded so it does not take advantage of the multiple cores i have going. Secondly I do not want anyone else possibly messing up the game files.
Everything has ZFS snapshots going as well so if something goes boom..i can just rollback that dataset or even individual files…:) Kinds neat..:)