samba - Aug 2003 - update: Win2kPro's TCP/IP Stack is crippled!

I've been doing some testing between Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) and Windows 2000
Server (no SP and SP4) -- specifcally testing file transfers from a Samba 
2.2.8a server.

Samba server:  P4/2.2GHz, ServerWorks chipset, SCSI UW2 disk subsystem 
(Bonnie++ tested to 35MB/sec), 3Com (acenic) gigabit ethernet

Win2kPro: P3/700, 3Com Vortex 100mbit network card

Win2kServer: P3/800, 3Com Vortex 100mbit network card

Switch: Baystack 350-24T with fiber gigabit module

No registry hacking done to either client (and in previous testing, no 
amount of TCP/IP hacking on Win2kPro helped)

Samba config file changes:
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=65536 SO_RCVBUF=65536
   max xmit = 65536
   read size = 65536
   getwd cache = Yes
   locking = Yes

The various shares have "use sendfile = yes"

Initial testing shows that the Windows 2000 Server stack is almost _twice_ 
as fast as the Windows 2000 Pro stack.  It's unbelievable that Microsoft 
would cripple their product this way.

One of the test runs is available at 
http://www.mixdown.ca/~andrew/win2ks-win2kp.png.  There are three 
transfers.  Ignore the first.  The second is an ~1.3GB transfer from Samba 
to Win2kServer, and the third is the same transfer but to Win2kPro.  I have 
never been able to get Win2kPro to go faster than what is shown there.

Any hints or tips or comments are welcome.

Regards,
Andrew

| I've been doing some testing between Windows 2000 
| Pro (SP4) and Windows 2000 Server (no SP and SP4) -- 
| specifcally testing file transfers from a Samba 
| 2.2.8a server.
.............
| Samba config file changes:
|    socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=65536 SO_RCVBUF=65536
|    max xmit = 65536
|    read size = 65536
|    getwd cache = Yes
|    locking = Yes
| 
| The various shares have "use sendfile = yes"
| 
| Initial testing shows that the Windows 2000 Server 
| stack is almost _twice_  as fast as the Windows 2000 
| Pro stack.  It's unbelievable that Microsoft would 
| cripple their product this way.

No, it's quite consistent with the commercial spirit -
more money, more power. But can you see what the 
difference in various registry settings is? E.g. how 
big the TCP packets are? 



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