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1998 Nov 15
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Performance Tuning advice [tracked down]
...MB/sec)
> 5. Win95, using mapped drive: 0:52 (872 kb/sec)
In point (2) Try using 'cat x >y' instead of 'cp'. There's a performance problem
in kernel which can be fixed by tweaking reported filesystem blocksize
constant 1024 to 4096 in
/usr/src/linux/fs/smbfs/proc.c/smb_init_dirent()/fattr->f_blksize=1024;
I wrote about it to samba@samba.anu and linux-kernel@vger but with
no response. :-(
> Obviously, when just doing raw data transfer - i.e. not opening and
> closing a bunch of files - Samba is coming close to FTP in speed. Some
> further testing with differe...