samba - May 2010 - smb/cifs share network speed testing

Is there any piece of software that I can use to run between a client
and a linux or windows server with a smb/cifs share that will test
network speed, latency, sustained read/writes, multiple file create,
read, write, close, etc.. etc.. over X period time?

I'm testing a Centos server with samba and Windows 2k3/8 servers on the
other end of a T1 connection and while I know the T1 bandwidth will be
the bandwidth limit, I want to see what happens when I have 1, 2, 3
clients just login in and begin doing file operations within a share.

Make sense?

Eric

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hi

i am newly in linux i am using Centos 5.5, I need help to create LDAP+Samba
for windows clients, if any buddy have good stuff please send it to
smkamal2001 at gmail.com.








On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Eric Feldhusen
<efeldhusen.lists at gmail.com>wrote:
> Is there any piece of software that I can use to run between a client
> and a linux or windows server with a smb/cifs share that will test
> network speed, latency, sustained read/writes, multiple file create,
> read, write, close, etc.. etc.. over X period time?
>
> I'm testing a Centos server with samba and Windows 2k3/8 servers on the
> other end of a T1 connection and while I know the T1 bandwidth will be
> the bandwidth limit, I want to see what happens when I have 1, 2, 3
> clients just login in and begin doing file operations within a share.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Eric
>
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> Eric Feldhusen
> Director of Technology
> Rudyard Area Schools    http://www.rudyard.k12.mi.us
> ericf at rudyard.k12.mi.us 906-478-3771 x102
> 11185 Second Street     906-478-3912 fax
> Rudyard, MI   49780
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> Is there any piece of software that I can use to run between a client
> and a linux or windows server with a smb/cifs share that will test
> network speed, latency, sustained read/writes, multiple file create,
> read, write, close, etc.. etc.. over X period time?
>    
iperf

<http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/>Iperf is a commonly used network 
testing tool that can create TCP and UDP data streams and measure the 
throughput of a network that is carrying them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf

Iperf is a tool to measure the bandwidth and the quality of a network link.
http://openmaniak.com/iperf.php

The dbench/tbench seems to be quite a good tool to measure the performance
of a samba share.
But I am confused by the dbench.

I got a copy of dbench from the git address in the download section of
http://dbench.samba.org.
After the "make",  there is no tbench, neither smbtorture.

Another copy of dbench from http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/dbench.
After the "make", there is tbench , dbench , no smbtorture.
The problem is that this dbench does not accept -B (--backend) option.

As for the smbtorture, it seems no place to download.

Iap

2010/5/27 Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha at sapo.pt>
>
>  Is there any piece of software that I can use to run between a client
>> and a linux or windows server with a smb/cifs share that will test
>> network speed, latency, sustained read/writes, multiple file create,
>> read, write, close, etc.. etc.. over X period time?
>>
>>
>
> iperf
>
> <http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/>Iperf is a commonly used
network
> testing tool that can create TCP and UDP data streams and measure the
> throughput of a network that is carrying them.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf
>
> Iperf is a tool to measure the bandwidth and the quality of a network link.
> http://openmaniak.com/iperf.php
>
>
>
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