From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 2:37:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maciek.gv.edu.pl (netserv.gv.edu.pl [195.117.86.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E8137B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 02:37:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from andrzej@localhost) by maciek.gv.edu.pl (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA26180; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:50:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andrzej) Message-ID: <20001111125018.A26077@gv.edu.pl> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:50:18 +0100 From: Andrzej Szydlo To: Vadim Vitebsky Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba Speed Problem References: <000501c04b9a$a45bcba0$0202a8c0@vitebsky.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <000501c04b9a$a45bcba0$0202a8c0@vitebsky.com>; from Vadim Vitebsky on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:48:30AM +0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:48:30AM +0500, Vadim Vitebsky wrote: [...] > > Question: When I connect to my smbd share, I can read information from it > with a full speed, I think (7-8MBytes/sec - 100Mbit, I think). > Unfortunately, Whe I try to write down some information to this share from > any clients I see, that the speed is so small (1-1.2MB/sec - 10MBit, I > think). The CPU of the server almost idle in this process (90% idle). Can I > write to my smbd share with a full speed? (I think, this troubles is not > connected to my hardware, because there are Pentium II 300, 128MB, Fujitsu > MPF 20GB as a server). Hi, Try playing with performance related samba server settings. The SMB protocol behavior seems to be unpredictable and only experimentation can help. Start from setting "write raw = no" in the smb.conf. Read /usr/local/share/doc/samba/textdocs/Speed.txt for some more tips. To make sure only Samba writes at low speed try writing a file using FTP. Andrzej To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message