ps3netsrv slow on Raspberry Pi 5 but fast on Windows x86_64

[FlotterCodername]

I have the the following setup:

• HW: RPi5 8GiB
• Linux retronas 6.6.28+rpt-rpi-2712 # 1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.28-1+rpt1 (2024-04-22) aarch64
• ps3netsrv build20240210a running on the RPi5
• USB 3.0 attached 2TiB SSD (NTFS)
• PS3 Super Slim with HEN and latest webMAN-MOD

It works but it is unplayable because it is so slow. Here is the thing though, if I change only one thing, it works blazing fast:

• ps3netsrv build20240210a running on a Windows PC (2nd argument is UNC path to the same RPi5)

Thoughts? Maybe this is a bug...

P.S.: Gigabit Ethernet is in use everywhere.

[aldostools]

It looks the binaries on RPi5 have some issue.

• Maybe the C compiler used to build the binaries produced buggy executable
• Maybe PC CPU is faster than RPi5
• Check if there are daemon processes in RPi5 that are consuming the resources

The code for Windows & linux are practically the same except that Windows uses Win32 API for threads & file I/O, and other minor differences.

[Masamune3210]

well, number 2 we can just probably assume to be correct, assuming the CPU was made within the last decade and doesn't involve the words Atom or Athlon

[FlotterCodername]

When I checked the resource usage on the Pi5, there was barely any CPU or I/O being used.
So it looks like I can try to compile it differently (retronas project compiled it for me)

[aldostools]

For a better comparison of perfomance, try the linux version in WSL in Windows

[Scorpie27]

Maybe I can add something to the discussion. I am the owner of a Pi400 and a Raspberry pi5. With the Pi400 using raspberry pi os and the same Ps3netsrv it it was faster than currently with my raspberry 5, Much faster. it can take up to 2 minutes to load a game on the pi5. I even went back to my raspberry pi 3b which was again much quicker than the pi5 and the Pi3 even has no gigabyte network.

[aldostools]

You could try other forks like ps3netsrv-go, which is a rewrite of ps3netsrv in Go language.
https://github.com/xakep666/ps3netsrv-go/releases

Test mounting PS3ISO and a folder game. The PS3ISO should mount faster due it doesn't need to create a virtual ISO.

Virtual ISOs can take a long time to build if the game contains thousands of files in the disc image.