On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:24:21PM -0400, Glenn Maynard
wrote:> What sort of performance is expected over GigE, with Samba 3 as the
> server and XP64 as the client? I havn't been able to find any current
> benchmarks at all.
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-June/156708.html talks about
> the same configuration, and suggests that the protocol should be able
> to break 100MB/sec. (Unfortunately, the poster disappeared without
> following up.) Focusing on read throughput (Samba to XP64), I see
> about the same performance as he did, around 50 MB/sec; with HTTP
> 97.7M/sec. Modern HDDs can regularly hit 100MB/sec, so halving
> throughput for large file copies is painful.
I've worked with OEM's to get more than 100MB/sec on their NAS devices.
Using the Intel NAS benchmark.
> I've always assumed this was just a limitation of the protocol on a
> link much faster than it was designed for, but that post suggests
> otherwise. He didn't mention if the Server 2008 system he was
> comparing against had large frames enabled, though, which I've never
> had much luck with.
>
> (I'll wait until asked before digging out hardware/configuration info,
> traces and so on; if the performance I'm seeing is already optimal
> then I won't bother. I'm on 3.4.0, which is what's packaged
with my
> version of Ubuntu; I'll also try upgrading to 3.5.x if that's
likely
> to help.)
Have you enabled sendfile ?
Jeremy.