Greetings, Ive been scratching my head at the slow network performance im having with samba 3.0.9 (running debian unstable) set up as a domain for a couple of winders 2k pc's , used for gaming when the nieces and nephews are over it holds the master image of the games. Unfortunately data transfers vary from 1MB to 2MBs from samba to winders whereas winders to winders does several times as fast It does not apear to be the hub or the network cards as the following indicates A 110MB file xferred from samba linux - linux takes about 77s doing the same over NFS takes 11s. I also did this with a 740MB iso 88s over nfs ~ 440 over smbfs ?? I get similar transfer rates when using the samba server on my pc. I have tested this also with a base smb.conf consisting only of - server name - workgroup name - share name - share path no noticeable difference the running kernel is a 2.6.9 cko2 network cards initially a 8139 based and also tried a 3com i build my own kernel - are there some options there that could cripple samba ?? Im using one of the winders pc's to maintain the games image as it takes so much longer moving around the Gigs using samba Any ideas please also cc replies to "service at orcon dot net dot nz" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com
me a ?crit :> Greetings, > > Ive been scratching my head at the slow network > performance im having > with samba 3.0.9 (running debian unstable) set up as a > domain for > a couple of winders 2k pc's , used for gaming when > the nieces and > nephews are over it holds the master image of the > games. > > Unfortunately data transfers vary from 1MB to 2MBs > from samba to winders > whereas winders to winders does several times as fast > > It does not apear to be the hub or the network cards > as the following > indicates > > A 110MB file xferred from samba linux - linux takes > about 77s > doing the same over NFS takes 11s. > > I also did this with a 740MB iso 88s over nfs ~ 440 > over smbfs ?? > I get similar transfer rates when using the samba > server on my > pc. > > I have tested this also with a base smb.conf > consisting only of > - server name > - workgroup name > - share name > - share path > > no noticeable difference > > the running kernel is a 2.6.9 cko2 > network cards initially a 8139 based and also tried a > 3com > > i build my own kernel - are there some options there > that could cripple > samba ?? > > Im using one of the winders pc's to maintain the games > image as it takes > so much longer moving around the Gigs using samba > > Any ideas > > please also cc replies to "service at orcon dot net > dot nz" > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Send a seasonal email greeting and help others. Do good. > http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.comGeneraly - use sendfile = yes - is the answer to perf pb on samba 3. Did you try it ? Pierre