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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:26:14 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SAMBA performance and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20030304192614.GA32605@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <003101c2e283$1763e110$e203a8c0@macedon>
References:  <003101c2e283$1763e110$e203a8c0@macedon>

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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:20:12PM +0200, Bigbrother wrote:
> 
> I started to use samba with freebsd and I cant say that I am
> satisfied with the performance of it. Specifically on my local 100Mbits
> network the samba read speed on the server (athlon 1700) is < 1Mbit/sec,
> while the write speed is much much worse.
> 
> If I ftp to that machine I have read speed of minimum 7Mbits/sec.

For starters, how do you measure _bits_ per second? "7Mbits/sec" sucks
for FTP over 100baseT networks. 7M bytes/sec is about right. Odds are
you have your bits and bytes mixed up.

At some point you have to consider your HD hardware. 1M bytes/sec of
random access isn't bad.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.

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