From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 13 04:07:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA13232 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 04:07:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA13185 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 04:07:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: (from arg@localhost) by arg1.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA15342; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:09:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:08:59 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-Sender: arg@server.arg.sj.co.uk To: Robert Schien cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange network problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Robert Schien wrote: > No the problem: > On B I am running the samba server. Sometimes it is necessary > for me to run Winloose NT 4 on the Pro and it is nice when I can > access files from B. > > But the samba performance is very bad. When the Pentium Pro machine (A) > copies files from B than only 200 KB/s are achived. > FTP from A to B and vice versa as well as the TCP benchmark tcpblast > show the almost full performance of 1.1 MB/s. > But when I run smbclient I only get 330 KB/s. > smbclient locally on B delivers 5 MB/s or more. Do you have "-O TCP_NODELAY" on the command line for smbd (or the equivalent in the smb.conf)? Without this, the typical symptoms are very poor performance where the client is a faster machine than the server. (note also that in old versions of the FreeBSD port of samba, this option was ignored silently due to a missing include file; recent versions in ports seem to be OK).