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. -- Matt Barton Webexcellence matt@webexc.com Phone: 317.423.3548 x22 Fax: 317.423.8735 www.webexc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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