Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:28:34 -0400 From: jason <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any idea why Sharity-Light is at least 3X faster than smbfs here? Message-ID: <41647FA2.5090901@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20041006050027.GV564@kirk.dlee.org> References: <20041006050027.GV564@kirk.dlee.org>
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Doug Lee wrote: >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: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xffbefc00-0xffbeffff irq 10 at device 20.0 on pci0 >miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0 >ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> 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. > > > I have done smbfs mounts on win xp and its slow for me too. Transfers to xp are horrifically slow! I had just 2 machines(the ones doing the transfer) on the switched 100base T network at the time. Last time I attempted a smbfs was a earlier this year on a box running current or 5.2.1.
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