Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:52:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> To: Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: poor samba write performance from win98 Message-ID: <XFMail.000411165235.lnb@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000411134459.E89057@gelatinous.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, A suggestion; Send this mail to samba-technical@samba.org They will be able to help you there as the core samba team is on that list. -lnb Official Canadian Mirror for Samba On 11-Apr-00 Aaron Smith wrote: > hello, > > i've seen this problem come up many times in the archives, and i've tried > lots of different options without success. i am using a win98 box to write > to a freebsd 4.0 samba 2.0.6 share. > > i have tried all kinds of socket options, bigger send/recv windows, strict > sync is off. this is a 100baseTX full-duplex (switched) four-node LAN. > > ftp write: about 4-5 megabytes/sec > samba read: around 4 megabytes/sec > samba write > from explorer shell: about 500k/sec > save from netscape of local file to share: about 1.2 megabytes/sec > > none of these have been rigorous measurements, but it's clear to me that > something's wrong. copying a 30meg file should not take a minute and a > half on switched fast ether. > > i have tried with/without the NODELAY and LOWDELAY stuff, set my buffers up > to values ranging from 8192 to 131072 (262144 fails with a no buffer space > available message) and generally tweaked until i turned blue. i've done > tcpdumps and i'm getting mostly full packets (1460 data bytes) and i didn't > notice anything wrong in the traces. > > the poor explorer shell performance would point to strict sync, but it's > off. if anybody has any ideas, please let me know. my current (culled) > smb.conf follows. > > aaron > > -- > > [global] > log file = /var/log/samba.log > max log size = 128 > security = user > socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY \ > SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072 > strict sync = no > local master = no > dns proxy = no > > [share] > comment = Shared Files > path = /share > read only = no > public = yes > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Lanny Baron, Master FreeBSD Administrator ---------------------------------- Date: 11-Apr-00 Time: 16:52:35 My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. -- Groucho Marx ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.000411165235.lnb>