Hi I have a setup where I regularily read from one share, process the data, and write them back to another share, on the same samba server. The issue I am seeing is that the speed levels out at about 55 MB/s, or around 500 mbit/s in both directions. The interesting thing is that if I create a KVM guest on the same server with pass through to the same hard drives to host the share that I read from I reach around 110 MB/s to the destination share after a few seconds. In other words I then get full duplex gigabit speeds from the fileserver. Why is that? Is this the result of running samba in two different processes (host and VM), and hence be able to process both reads and writes in a parallell way? Is there some way to make a single samba server process data at 1gbit/s read and write at the same time for two different shares, like I can do if I put one share in a VM on the same host? If I only do copies or writes in one direction from my workstation I always max the gigabit at ~110MB/s. // H-K