Hi all, I've installed samba on a sun sparc-station with solaris 2.5. But when i'm doing something that's using the network really intense (like mp3-files playing over the network) the feed is not constant. With mp3 files you can that because you have pauses during the playing of the song. Is this a configuration mistake or something ? cu, Patrick ,---------------------------------------------------------------------. | E-mail : pvzweden@caiw.nl | | Home-Page : http://www.caiw.nl/~pvzweden | | Nick-name : Sandburd | | | | "It is our policy to always blame the computer." | `--------------------------------------------------------------------'
Patrick van Zweden <sandburd@caiw.nl> wrote:> I've installed samba on a sun sparc-station with solaris 2.5. But when > i'm doing something that's using the network really intense (like > mp3-files playing over the network) the feed is not constant. With mp3 > files you can[t allow] that because you have pauses during the playing > of the song. > Is this a configuration mistake or something ?That depends on what you mean by ``i'm doing something that's using the network really intense''. If the net is busy already, mp3 will be affected. It's unlikely the server is a problem: a colleague pointed out that his experience is that the normal place to bottleneck is on the client: the format is highly compressed, easy to ship around and cpu-intensive to play. Try running it and looking to see if you get 3% or more collisions on the 'net . (netstat -i while the slowdowns are occurring, vs normal) --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Cherish your enemies. They're harder to 185 Ellerslie Ave., | come by than friends and more motivated. Willowdale, Ontario | davecb@canada.sun.com, hobbes.ss.org N2M 1Y3. 416-223-8968 | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb
Patrick van Zweden wrote:> The client play's mp3-files perfectly over the network when they are coming > from a linux machine. The network was not busy at the times i have tried > this. With trying to play them from the sun the network wasn't busy either.Rats! That shouldn't happen (;-)) Do you know if there are any differences in the following smb.conf variables between the two servers? Name Default Recommended log level ~1 1 socket options <none> TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY optionally SO_SNDBUF=<large number> read raw on on write raw on on oplocks on on (only available in late versions) max xmit 65535 65535 read prediction off off strict locking off off sync always off off wide links on on hide files <none> <none> dead time <none> 15 and in the Makefile -DFAST_SHARE_MODES --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Cherish your enemies. They're harder to 185 Ellerslie Ave., | come by than friends and more motivated. Willowdale, Ontario | davecb@canada.sun.com, hobbes.ss.org N2M 1Y3. 416-223-8968 | http://java.science.yorku.ca/~davecb