From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 05:00:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598B416A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 05:00:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out012.verizon.net (out012pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF51643D3F for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 05:00:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgl@kirk.dlee.org) Received: from kirk.dlee.org ([141.156.254.96]) by out012.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20041006050030.ONNE28066.out012.verizon.net@kirk.dlee.org> for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:00:30 -0500 Received: from kirk.dlee.org (dgl@localhost.dlee.org [127.0.0.1]) by kirk.dlee.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9650SIF083722 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:00:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgl@kirk.dlee.org) Received: (from dgl@localhost) by kirk.dlee.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i9650Sth083721 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:00:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgl) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:00:27 -0400 From: Doug Lee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041006050027.GV564@kirk.dlee.org> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Lee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: Bartimaeus Group User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out012.verizon.net from [141.156.254.96] at Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:00:29 -0500 Subject: Any idea why Sharity-Light is at least 3X faster than smbfs here? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:00:31 -0000 I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE on a P166 and trying to copy very large (but under 4 gig) files from FreeBSD to a Windows 98 (Second Edition) P866 machine. Neither machine has much other load. (The FreeBSD version probably doesn't matter; I've seen this on many 4.x revisions in the same hardware configuration. My network is 100BaseTX Ethernet and uses a hub, though during this test there are no machines on the LAN other than these two. I only see a few packet collisions per minute on the dc0 interface of the FreeBSD machine, which is the interface on this LAN and which produces the following info at boot time: dc0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xffbefc00-0xffbeffff irq 10 at device 20.0 on pci0 miibus0: on dc0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Anomaly: Contrary to Sharity-Light docs, which say smbfs is faster, A Win98 share as just described accepts data about three times faster if mounted via shlight than if mounted via smbfs. I'm wondering if anyone knows why. (For comparison, I believe ftp moves about two times even faster than shlight.) Please Cc me directly. Thanks very much for any input. -- Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." --unknown source