From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 21:34:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA00107 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:34:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00101 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA17654; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:57:37 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604190427.NAA17654@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ummm.. nfs vs. samba To: brian@mediacity.com Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:57:36 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604180934.CAA09237@MediaCity.com> from "Brian Litzinger" at Apr 18, 96 02:34:09 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Litzinger stands accused of saying: > > I remember reading on this forum a number of times that SAMBA was > much faster at serving files to MS Windows type machines than NFS. > > Did I remember that backwards? Nope. > I converted a client machine of mine from PCDOS 6.3/MS Windows3.1/NFS (or XFS) > to MSDOS 6.22/MS Windows95/SAMBA. > > And I can say that for the exact same equipment trying to transfer > the same 700MBs of data, the latter setup is astronomically > slower than the former. Can you be a bit more specific about "astronomically"? We see about 500K/sec here on Compex 21040-based cards, and about 350K/sec with NE2000's. We also have XFS in the shop, and I've never seen it go over 200K/sec on a cool day with the wind behind it. > So whats the deal? Dunno. What ethernet hardware? If you have a sever with serious balls your cards may be being overrun - SMB uses _big_ packets, so you'll get anything up to 64K of packets back-to-back which can be a bit much for a W95 client with a crummy adapter. > Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[