Hello, I have 8 Samba servers with 300 clients here running on Sun and Linux machines with GREAT performance. Now in one departement i installed samba 2.0.6 on one 40K$ IBM F50 with AIX 4.3.2, 2xCPU, 256MB RAM, 100FDX, extern RAID 5 Tower . Performance is really very, very BAD. I tried already everything, but this IBM box with samba is just very SLOW. Browsing through directories, logging, copying - it all takes a very long time. The same client connected to Sun+Samba or Linux+Samba in the same network is incredibly faster. We are already thinking about exchanging this expensive machine with one 10 times cheaper Linux box ... Any ideas are welcome. -- Have a nice day ! Tomek Jarosinski Fachhochschule Hamburg - University of Applied Sciences 20099 Hamburg, Berliner Tor 21, R. 429 Tel:040/42859-2802 Fax:040/42859-2889 E-Mail: tomek@is.fh-hamburg.de --Linux is like a wigwam: no gates, no windows, and an apache inside--
Tomek Jarosinski wrote: | I have 8 Samba servers with 300 clients here running on Sun and Linux | machines with GREAT performance. Now in one departement i installed | samba 2.0.6 on one 40K$ IBM F50 with AIX 4.3.2, 2xCPU, 256MB RAM, | 100FDX, extern RAID 5 Tower . Performance is really very, very BAD. Check to see if ftp performance is slow too: if it is, you've a networking problem. We've been having a lot of mismatched 10/100 full/half-duplex problems this year... IBMs are normally **fast** boxes! --dave -- David Collier-Brown in Boston Phone: (781) 442-0734, Room BUR03-3632
I've got an AIX 4.3.2 machine F50 with WONDERFUL samba performance. It probably has to do with your socket options. In my samba config: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=32768 SO_RCVBUF=32768 Try this!!! - Joe Vigil I.S. Mgr Avibank Mfg., Inc. Tomek Jarosinski wrote:> Hello, > I have 8 Samba servers with 300 clients here running on Sun and Linux > machines with GREAT performance. Now in one departement i installed > samba 2.0.6 on one 40K$ IBM F50 with AIX 4.3.2, 2xCPU, 256MB RAM, > 100FDX, extern RAID 5 Tower . Performance is really very, very BAD. I > tried already everything, but this IBM box with samba is just very SLOW. > Browsing through directories, logging, copying - it all takes a very > long time. The same client connected to Sun+Samba or Linux+Samba in the > same network is incredibly faster. We are already thinking about > exchanging this expensive machine with one 10 times cheaper Linux box > .. > Any ideas are welcome. > -- > Have a nice day ! > Tomek Jarosinski > Fachhochschule Hamburg - University of Applied Sciences > 20099 Hamburg, Berliner Tor 21, R. 429 > Tel:040/42859-2802 Fax:040/42859-2889 > E-Mail: tomek@is.fh-hamburg.de > --Linux is like a wigwam: no gates, no windows, and an apache inside--