From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 9 11:18:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C2C15AD6 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 11:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA17645; Sun, 9 May 1999 13:39:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 13:39:49 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Christopher Michaels Cc: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Samba performance? In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105878@site2s1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 May 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: in re Samba throughput being dog-slow... > > please, if possible post your machine's hardware configuration, there > > are several tuning tips people never do that may be hindering performance > > if you can give me this information I may be able to help more... > > > > cpu, disk type, ram, etc... > > > > if you are using IDE disks, i recommed you try to change the "flags" > > parameter to 0xa0ffa0ff and see if that helps, this will enable DMA > > on your hardrives. > > > > -Alfred > > > My turn to chime in here. I have similar problems with my samba > setup. I have a 100BaseT network, and can get consistent 5000kb/sec through > FTP (I assume this is a disk limitation). Any transactions that use samba > are significantly slower, usually 5x to 10x slower. So obviously this is a > samba tuning issue. I'll be darned if I can find anything that helps me > though. I have checked out the 2 performance text files in > /usr/local/share/docs/samba/ to no avail. > > (yes I have DMA mode turned on) > > So if there is a solution to this, I'd be interested to hear it to. I would get sambe running on my local network here but the only windows box i have has a cruddy 10mbit card (my other boxes are 100mbit), perhaps later tonight I can get this up and give you guys some tips. (I've had samba tuned up before, it's just been a while and several major releases of samba since) :) Another shot in the dark, try compiling/enabling TCP_NODELAY or something that looks like that. Please tell us if it solves your problem. thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message