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From: Craig Wilson <craig@natsoft.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Samba Performance
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I have FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a computer that is having Samba
performance problems. Using an Intel EtherExpress Pro100 (100MBit) it
takes 10 times as long to copy the same large file from a Win98
computer to the FreeBSD computer than it takes to copy from a Win98 to
Win98 computer.

On looking at the Samba man page I see that FeeBSD 3.3-RELEASE is
using Samba 2.0.5a. This Samba was installed as a precompiled package
from the 3.3-RELEASE CD-ROM. Could someone please advise me if the
Samba package on the CD-ROM contains this problem. If so I assume it
is best to download Samba 2.0.6.

Thanks in advance

Craig Wilson
National software Pty Ltd

Greg Lewis wrote:
> 
> > Try to look into the ports/samba/patches for the patch-ah file (which provided
> > to resolve such misbehaviour). If that file doesn't exist than either try to
> > cvsup your ports, or manually add following patch and recompile/reinstall samba:
> 
> This patch is only relevant for Samba 2.0.5a.  If you look at the Changelog
> for 2.0.6 you'll see that MSG_WAITALL was removed specifically because of
> the performance problems under FreeBSD it caused.
>


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