From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 07:27:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA17784 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 07:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA17778 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 07:27:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA01527 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:33:54 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970114102731.00a82eb0@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 10:27:33 -0500 To: hackers@freebsd.org From: dennis Subject: Re: IPFW + Samba -> performance problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:09 AM 1/15/97 +1100, you wrote: >In some mail from Eivind Eklund, sie said: >> >> At 12:58 PM 1/14/97 +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: >> >This same server dial out with PPP. One day I got a fit of paranoia, and >> >decided to install ipfw to throw away packets coming from the net. The >> >firewalling worked, performance for reads from Samba is the same as ever, >> >but performance for writes dropped from well above 500KB/s to approx 20KB/s >> > (25-fold). >> >> More information: It seems that the read-speed dropped for _some_ people, >> but not for all - personally, I found no change. The write-speed seemed to >> drop consistently. >> >> (And yes, the problem is isolated to be when the firewall is enabled - >> that, at least, is consistent :) > >if you have time/motivation, can you try IP Filter & let me know if that >makes any difference vs ipfw ? Using "SAMBA" and "Performance" in the same sentence is poor english. Dennis