Hello gurus, I have samba fileserver 2.0.5a installed on Reliant UNIX 5.44 (Siemens UNIX). All works fine but now I need to get as much speed from it as it can provide. I have this UNIX box and an NT 4.0 Server in the same FDDI ring. When I try to copy an 180 Mb file via FTP to local hard disk the transfer rate is 1014,16 Kb/sec. But while copying it from the samba share to the same location by means of explorer this speed becomes 867,26 Kb/sec. This shows me that use of ordinary ftp is 16,9 percents faster than copy via samba share. Can you provide me with any helpful advices on tuning samba server in order to speed the things up? TIA, Nick
Reed Speed.txt. However, my experience has been (and others) that you get things order of magnitude difference betwen FTP and CIFS due to the difference between the protocols. Nick Dobrovolski wrote:> > ring. When I try to copy an 180 Mb file via FTP to local hard disk the > transfer rate is 1014,16 Kb/sec. But while copying it from the samba > share to the same location by means of explorer this speed becomes > 867,26 Kb/sec. This shows me that use of ordinary ftp is 16,9 percents > faster than copy via samba share. Can you provide me with any helpful > advices on tuning samba server in order to speed the things up? > > TIA, > NickCheers, jerry ________________________________________________________________________ Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter Engineering Network Services Auburn University jerry@eng.auburn.edu http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )
At 08:57 PM 9/7/99 +1000, Nick Dobrovolski wrote:>Hello gurus,--- SNIP --->faster than copy via samba share. Can you provide me with any helpful >advices on tuning samba server in order to speed the things up?I'm not exactly a Guru, but afaik the only serious tweaking you can do is: - Enable and use WINS to avoid all that nasty broadcast traffic - Set your socket options to the reccomended setting in the smb.conf man page. - Read but largely ignore Speed.txt and Speed2.txt (some of the advice in the latter file is genuinely harmful). - Hope for the best. On my LAN I tend to get around 2mb per second on get's and 3.x mb per second on puts with Samba, this compares to about 2mb per second on gets and 6mb per second on puts with FTP. All the machines involved are using LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 cards connected to a LinkSys 10/100 hub. Oddly enough when I connected a 10mbit/s client to the hub and tried samba out I got about 750kb/s put and 900kb/s get. . . If anyone can explain this I'm listening :) -- Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?