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Hello gurus, I have samba fileserver 2.0.5a installed on Reliant UNIX 5.44 (Siemens UNIX). All works fine but now I need to get as much speed from it as it can provide. I have this UNIX box and an NT 4.0 Server in the same FDDI ring. When I try to copy an 180 Mb file via FTP to local hard disk the transfer rate is 1014,16 Kb/sec. But while copying it from the samba share to the same location by

.... I noticed that network performance seemed slow (when working with apache cgi stuff) and when I actually timed some file transfers (both SMB and ftp) I was getting anywhere from 50 - 150 k/sec. Huh? This is supposed to be a 100 Mbps full duplex network (segmented with 4 8-port switches; LinkSys EtherFast 10/100s - about $180 each). When I used the dmesg command on the linux box, all I could see was: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. eth0: Transmit error...

...le is genuinely harmful). >- Hope for the best. > >On my LAN I tend to get around 2mb per second on get's and 3.x mb per >second on puts with Samba, this compares to about 2mb per second on gets >and 6mb per second on puts with FTP. All the machines involved are using >LinkSys Etherfast 10/100 cards connected to a LinkSys 10/100 hub. >Oddly enough when I connected a 10mbit/s client to the hub and tried samba >out I got about 750kb/s put and 900kb/s get. . . If anyone can explain this >I'm listening :) >-- > >Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading...