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...hrough with it). If I do the same using cp -r from the Linux box, it takes roughly 2 seconds. I checked top and vmstat and neither seemed to show anything unusual - in fact, Samba had pretty negligible CPU usage. The hard drive array is SCSI, hardware RAID 1 (LVD Ultra-2, MegaRAID Express 300 with 2xSeagate Cheetah XL - 37GB, 6ms, 10k RPM), with a 32MB cache. Given that the drives have such a large cache, fast access speed, and that there is no delay from a command line (over ssh), is it safe to assume there's either a network or Samba problem? The server is on its own port of a switch and I am c...

...hrough with it). If I do the same using cp -r from the Linux box, it takes roughly 2 seconds. I checked top and vmstat and neither seemed to show anything unusual - in fact, Samba had pretty negligible CPU usage. The hard drive array is SCSI, hardware RAID 1 (LVD Ultra-2, MegaRAID Express 300 with 2xSeagate Cheetah XL - 37GB, 6ms, 10k RPM), with a 32MB cache. Given that the drives have such a large cache, fast access speed, and that there is no delay from a command line (over ssh), is it safe to assume there's either a network or Samba problem? The server is on its own port of a switch and I am c...