From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 13 15:01:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA27539 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:01:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (in-ruhr.ruhr.de [141.39.224.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA27533 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de) Received: from robkaos.ruhr.de (admin@localhost) by mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (8.8.5-r-beta/8.8.5) with UUCP id WAA08364 for freebsd.org!hardware; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:38:23 +0100 (MET) Received: by robkaos.ruhr.de (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1) id ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:37:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) Subject: Re: Strange network problem In-Reply-To: from Andrew Gordon at "Oct 13, 97 12:08:59 pm" To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:37:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Do you have "-O TCP_NODELAY" on the command line for smbd (or the > equivalent in the smb.conf)? > > Without this, the typical symptoms are very poor performance where the > client is a faster machine than the server. > > (note also that in old versions of the FreeBSD port of samba, this option > was ignored silently due to a missing include file; recent versions in > ports seem to be OK). Thanks! This options had a big effect. Performance increased to 1 MB/s. :-) BTW, what can I do with my NFS? I get only 600 KB/s when reading files over NFS (the server again the smaller K5 machine, the client the fast P6 machine). TIA Robert