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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:52:35 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com>
To: Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org>
Subject: RE: poor samba write performance from win98
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Hi,
A suggestion; Send this mail to samba-technical@samba.org
They will be able to help you there as the core samba team is on that list.

-lnb
Official Canadian Mirror for Samba

On 11-Apr-00 Aaron Smith wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i've seen this problem come up many times in the archives, and i've tried
> lots of different options without success. i am using a win98 box to write
> to a freebsd 4.0 samba 2.0.6 share. 
> 
> i have tried all kinds of socket options, bigger send/recv windows, strict
> sync is off. this is a 100baseTX full-duplex (switched) four-node LAN.
> 
>      ftp write:         about 4-5 megabytes/sec
>      samba read:  around 4 megabytes/sec
>      samba write
>         from explorer shell: about 500k/sec
>       save from netscape of local file to share: about 1.2 megabytes/sec
> 
> none of these have been rigorous measurements, but it's clear to me that
> something's wrong. copying a 30meg file should not take a minute and a
> half on switched fast ether.
>                 
> i have tried with/without the NODELAY and LOWDELAY stuff, set my buffers up
> to values ranging from 8192 to 131072 (262144 fails with a no buffer space
> available message) and generally tweaked until i turned blue. i've done
> tcpdumps and i'm getting mostly full packets (1460 data bytes) and i didn't
> notice anything wrong in the traces.
> 
> the poor explorer shell performance would point to strict sync, but it's
> off. if anybody has any ideas, please let me know. my current (culled)
> smb.conf follows.
> 
> aaron
> 
> --
> 
> [global]
>    log file = /var/log/samba.log
>    max log size = 128
>    security = user
>    socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY \
>                      SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072
>    strict sync = no
>    local master = no
>    dns proxy = no 
> 
> [share]
>    comment = Shared Files
>    path = /share
>    read only = no
>    public = yes
> 
> 
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Lanny Baron,
Master FreeBSD Administrator
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Date: 11-Apr-00
Time: 16:52:35

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