samba - Dec 2001 - Gigabit Samba

I'm trying to run Samba on a gigabit network.
On the server side I've got Samba 2.2.1 running on an sgi Origin200 with a 
gigabit ethernet card plugged into a gigabit switch, and the files are being 
served off a fibrechannel raid array.  On the client side I have a windows 2k 
box with a gigabit card plugged into the same switch.  Both machines and the 
switch claim that everything is running at 1Gb/s, yet file transfere doesn't
seem any faster than with fast ethernet.  

Is samba simply not able to serve up files at gigabit speeds or is there some 
tweaking that needs doing to get it to do this, or is it simply some problem 
with my network?

Dag

> I'm trying to run Samba on a gigabit network.
> On the server side I've got Samba 2.2.1 running on an sgi Origin200
with a
> gigabit ethernet card plugged into a gigabit switch, and the files are
being
> served off a fibrechannel raid array.  On the client side I have a windows
2k
> box with a gigabit card plugged into the same switch.  Both machines and
the
> switch claim that everything is running at 1Gb/s, yet file transfere
doesn't
> seem any faster than with fast ethernet.  
> 
> Is samba simply not able to serve up files at gigabit speeds or is there
some
> tweaking that needs doing to get it to do this, or is it simply some
problem
> with my network?
Compare the samba speed with the speed of ftp, http, ...
And: You may need a advanced PC hardware to get a big advantege from 
the gigabit network. Your network card is pluged into the PCI-bus of 
the PC and to my knowlage the standard PCI-bus is the bottleneck 
compared with a gigabit network.


Christian

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and the hard drive is even slower.

Christian Barth wrote:

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> Compare the samba speed with the speed of ftp, http, ...
> And: You may need a advanced PC hardware to get a big advantege from
> the gigabit network. Your network card is pluged into the PCI-bus of
> the PC and to my knowlage the standard PCI-bus is the bottleneck
> compared with a gigabit network.
> 
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Thing