When I try to make a copy the folder with the GIF files using Windows, the
countdown says it will take roughly half an hour (I didn't actually go
through with it). If I do the same using cp -r from the Linux box, it takes
roughly 2 seconds. I checked top and vmstat and neither seemed to show
anything unusual - in fact, Samba had pretty negligible CPU usage.
The hard drive array is SCSI, hardware RAID 1 (LVD Ultra-2, MegaRAID Express
300 with 2xSeagate Cheetah XL - 37GB, 6ms, 10k RPM), with a 32MB cache.
Given that the drives have such a large cache, fast access speed, and that
there is no delay from a command line (over ssh), is it safe to assume
there's either a network or Samba problem?
The server is on its own port of a switch and I am currently the only user
on another port. Both network cards are running at 100MB/s. I have set debug
level = 0 in smb.conf, and attached it below for reference. Bizarrely, it
seems to have got slower since earlier! I tried killing all server processes
(MySQL, Apache, PHP, Qmail) but no difference.
Any ideas? I've spent the last few weeks telling people how much faster the
service will be than before, and now I might be ending up with egg on my
face :-)
Cheers
John
[root@pluto lib]# cat smb.conf
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = Mobiletones
netbios name = pluto
server string = Samba %v on (%L)
encrypt passwords = Yes
domain admin group = @adm
debug level = 0
add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d
/dev/null -s /bin/false %m$
logon script = scripts\%U.bat
domain logons = Yes
os level = 34
local master = yes
preferred master =yes
domain master = yes
wins support = yes
name resolve order = hosts bcast
guest account = user
auto services = %u
share modes = No
dns proxy = yes
[netlogon]
path = /usr/local/samba/netlogon
browsable = No
public = no
writeable = no
[homes]
comment = "Home Directory for : %u"
path = /home/%u/samba
guest ok = no
read only = No
public = no
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
browseable = No
locking = No
[public]
comment = This area is accessable by all users
path = /home/samba/public
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
read only = No
browsable = Yes
guest ok = Yes
