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Date:      Tue, 25 Dec 2001 00:54:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matt Barton <matt@webexc.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org, Peter Ong <peter@haloflightleader.net>
Subject:   Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing
Message-ID:  <20011225005152.X83054-100000@spock.webexc.com>
In-Reply-To: <017001c18bff$08a2e8a0$0101a8c0@haloflightleader.net>

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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Peter Ong wrote:

> I apologize if I'm off.  But it seems you guys are talking about
> improving FBSD 4.5 networking performance.
>
> I am currently using FreeBSD 4.4 Release.  It works great, but there is
> that one problem Samba.  I like Samba because it's functional.  I don't
> know if it's Samba's fault, or if it's BSD's fault, but it behaves very
> erratically. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow.
>
> When I used RH7.1, I installed Samba there as well.  Samba worked fine,
> but also with the same behavior.  But it was somewhat more reliable on
> RH than FreeBSD.  I don't know if it's Samba itself or the OS, although
> I'm inclined to say it is Samba.  If so, disregard this message.
>
> When I used RH/Samba, I put all of my MP3 music there.  I'd listen to it
> on Winamp from my Win98 laptop.  It worked fine...  no skips.  But when
> I put it on FreeBSD, the first minute or so is skip free, but as it
> passes that time limit it starts skipping... I mean, it blanks out as if
> it's readying the cache faster than it's being transfered over the
> network.  My network is 10/100Mbits switched.
>
> The difference is now only the operating system.  The box is a
> P3/450/128MB. It had RH, then it moved to FreeBSD.  Now, I'm having that
> problem.  Videos are even worse.  I have some *.mov, and Real movie
> files, that I must first download, and then I watch.  I can't watch it
> over the wire.
>
> This is just my two cents.  Maybe 5 cents.  Thanks.

I'm using Samba 2.2.2 (port: samba-2.2.2_1) on 4.4-RELEASE and I do not
have any of these problems when playing movies and MP3's.  Perhaps it is
the client OS?  Not sure.  I'm using Mac OS X's built-in SMB client and
Windows 2000.

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