From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 9:50:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F080337B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD7143E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gA4Ho4dw310026; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:50:04 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021104145637.36997.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021104145637.36997.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:50:02 -0500 To: Roberto Armenteros , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Samba taking too long to upload files. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 6:56 AM -0800 11/4/02, Roberto Armenteros wrote: >The download process is very fast, but not the upload >process. When I upload to my other windows machine it >goes five times as fast as my bsd box. What could be >the problem? Make sure your ethernet card has the correct setting wrt half-duplex vs full-duplex. I had a situation where the card was assuming a half-duplex connection, but the network port (on the gateway) was hardwired to 100Mbit full-duplex. The performance penalty for samba file transfers was enormous. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message