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Performance on Synology RAIDs

(especially while expanding)

Warning: The exact commands may not match for your particular linux OS / Synology(NAS) device. I had to customize the commands after exploring my particular system's setup.

If you're new to linux, or this is a new piece of hardware / a new synology device, jump down to the section called "Inspecting a setup"

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Raspberry Pi VPN Router

This is a quick-and-dirty guide to setting up a Raspberry Pi as a "router on a stick" to PrivateInternetAccess VPN.

Requirements

Install Raspbian Jessie (2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie.img) to your Pi's sdcard.

Use the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool or sudo raspi-config to:

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stevenharman

# log the default values:
echo "speed_limit_max: `cat /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max`" #=> 200000
echo "speed_limit_min: `cat /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min`" #=> 10000
echo "stripe_cache_size: `/sys/block/md2/md/stripe_cache_size`"  #=> 256

# update to use more RAM (Stripe Cache Size) and higher lower bound (speed_limit_min)
echo 100000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min
# This will result in more memory usage. bumping to 32768 resulted in ~512MB RAM increase.
echo 32768 > /sys/block/md2/md/stripe_cache_size

corny

#!/bin/sh -e
hostname=$1
device=$2
file=$HOME/.dynv6.addr6
[ -e $file ] && old=`cat $file`

if [ -z "$hostname" -o -z "$token" ]; then
  echo "Usage: token=<your-authentication-token> [netmask=64] $0 your-name.dynv6.net [device]"
  exit 1
fi