From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 8 10:39: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.psn.ie (mailhub.psn.ie [194.106.150.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FEC14F43 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:38:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ad@psn.ie) Received: from vmunix.psn.ie ([194.106.150.252]) by mailhub.psn.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 10K4iQ-00055p-00; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:25:22 +0000 Received: from localhost.psn.ie ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by vmunix.psn.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10K4jU-000054-00; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:26:28 +0000 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:26:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Andy Doran To: Vincent Fleming Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: samba performance In-Reply-To: <01BE6710.A0EEE120@rembrandt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Very strange... but mounting the filesystems asynch has no effect. > > I'll have to look through the code to see if smbd is creating the files > with O_SYNC or something. I would think mounting the filesystems > async would make a difference. Hmm... I thought we had it there! > > Vince > This could be a network problem. Here, from mailhub, a FreeBSD box running 3.1 we get performance as high as is possible with 10Mb Ethernet when doing NFS. This drops to about 90kB/s when doing writes over TCP (ftp, Samba, etc). This is with a 3Com Etherlink XL. Go figure. Andy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message