I have the following network configuration: Server FreeBSD 6.2 P4 3Ghz, 1GB RAM Samba 3.0.24 (options: WITH_ADS, WITH_PAM, WITH_SENDFILE, WITH_UTMP, WITH_WINBIND) Standard FreeBSD NFS Server Adaptec 2410SA controller with 4 drives running RAID5 Broadcom GigE Client Windows XP MCE Microsoft SFU 3.5 running NFS client over UDP The client and the server are connected to the same GigE switch. When I copy one large file (10GB) from the client to the server over an NFS mount I get an average performance of 18MB/s. The same file copied from the same directory on the client to the same directory on the server over a Samba mount averages 4Mb/s. Any ideas on why is there such a huge performance difference and what can I do to improve Samba performance are appreciated. Regards, AG
Alexander Gelf schrieb:> > I have the following network configuration: > > Server > FreeBSD 6.2 > P4 3Ghz, 1GB RAM > Samba 3.0.24 (options: WITH_ADS, WITH_PAM, WITH_SENDFILE, WITH_UTMP, > WITH_WINBIND) > Standard FreeBSD NFS Server > Adaptec 2410SA controller with 4 drives running RAID5 > Broadcom GigE > > Client > Windows XP MCE > Microsoft SFU 3.5 running NFS client over UDP > > The client and the server are connected to the same GigE switch. > > When I copy one large file (10GB) from the client to the server over an > NFS mount I get an average performance of 18MB/s. > The same file copied from the same directory on the client to the same > directory on the server over a Samba mount averages 4Mb/s. > > Any ideas on why is there such a huge performance difference and what > can I do to improve Samba performance are appreciated.your smb.conf? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org