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hi,

i saw this same problem with 2.0.5a and 3.2-stable last week,
everything was 100K/s talking to win98 and nt boxes.  downgrading
to 2.0.2 fixed it, network performance is great.  i didn't try
2.0.3 or 2.0.4.  good luck!

james


> Hello,
> I am having trouble with samba.  I am running 3.2-STABLE as of about 30 days
> ago.  I am running the samba-2.0.5a that was compiled about a week ago.  I
> have been running samba since version before samba-2.0 and I have been
> having this problem all along.  My samba performance is horrible, this is
> from multiple machines.
> 
> With FTP I can regularly get from 2-5MB/sec.  With samba I'm lucky if I get
> 500KB/sec, usually it's less.
> 
> One machine is a windows machine and one is a the FreeBSD machine.  The
> windows machines will transfer via network neighborhood fine.  Any of the
> machines transferring to/from the FreeBSD machine via samba will get similar
> poor performance.  Again, FTP works perfectly fine.
> 
> I would expect a bit slower performance from samba because there is more
> overhead involved, but not by a factor of 10 or more.
> 
> FreeBSD machine has an Intel etherexpress pro 10/100 (fxp0), half-duplex for
> all cards.  auto-switching 10/100 hub.  All IDE drives.  I'm currently using
> vinum but I was having this problem before I started using vinum.
> 
> Has anyone had similar experiences, and if so, can they shed any light on
> the problem?
> 
> Thank you,
> -Chris
>


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