samba - Sep 1998 - samba on linux seems slower than win95 as server

hi folks,

we had a nice old compaq Prosignia300 server - Pentium75 but nice 
architecture.  It won't serve as a workstation but from what I read 
of linux and samba it should have done very well as a server on our 
win95 network.

However, after setting all the win95 boxes up with tcp/ip to see the 
samba server, and copying all our medical databases across, we found 
that the response time was much slower than when we used the machine 
in win95 with netbeui.

all I had read about samba suggested we should get much better 
performance rather than worse.

did i set it up wrong? is there is some configuration which should be 
changed to make it work better?

grateful for any help.

(PS if we can make this hum, many of my colleagues would start using 
Samba on Linux rather than buying NT to get stability.)

cheers,

Hugh Nelson.

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>However, after setting all the win95 boxes up with tcp/ip to see the 
>samba server, and copying all our medical databases across, we found 
>that the response time was much slower than when we used the machine 
>in win95 with netbeui.
>all I had read about samba suggested we should get much better 
>performance rather than worse.
>did i set it up wrong? is there is some configuration which should be 
>changed to make it work better?

We have had a problem with slow samba too.

Our solution : "socket options = TCP_NODELAY" in the
"[global]" section, in /etc/smb.conf.


 

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