From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 12:06:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11907 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MediaCity.com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11888 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA07281; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:04:10 -0700 From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199608051904.MAA07281@MediaCity.com> Subject: Re: Samba file I/O performance To: randyd@nconnect.net (Randy DuCharme) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <32015C44.5358@nconnect.net> from Randy DuCharme at "Aug 1, 96 08:39:16 pm" Reply-To: brian@MediaCity.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Randy DuCharme wrote: > Greetings, > Are there any ways to improve the I/O performance of a Samba server. > File copies from DOS / Win95 stations seem slow compared to a similar > hardware configuration running NetWare or NT...or is this normal?? I've been running Samba on a FreeBSD machine serving a number of Win95 machines and originally noticed the same behavior. I eventually determined that the FreeBSD machine was sending the large samba packets to the Win95 hosts so fast that is was overflowing the Win95 machines ethernet cards and hence a large number of retransmits were happening. I upgraded the ethernet cards in the Win95 machines and all is better now. -- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD http[s]://www.mpress.com