From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 17:37:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF08237B664 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:37:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: from cx443070a ([24.4.93.90]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000412003730.JFV22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@cx443070a>; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:37:30 -0700 Message-ID: <019d01bfa418$b8e44040$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: Cc: Subject: Samba Speed Issues and Information Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:47:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've recently switched my company from a Windows NT fileserver to FreeBSD/Samba. It's working really great and I absolutely love Samba. The only reason I'm asking about speed issues and tweaking, is I heard someone say something about it that implied that there are tricks/tweaks you can do to increase the speed of Samba's interactions with Win98 computers. My company uses a DOS based Database program (custom), which simply uses file sharing. Several things take quite a bit of time, like running reports, posting, etc, even though (a) the processor load on the PII 350s isn't anywhere near 20%, and (b) the network is 100BaseTx running on a very nice 3Com Switch. The FreeBSD server is a Dual Pentium III 500 with 256 megs, and the hard drive is 7200rpm SCSI-3. In other words, we have much more hardware than required. I'm thinking something simple, like the caching, packet size, etc is causing lag or overhead that keeps our system from performing to it's fullest. If there's a page with some tips and tricks for fine tuning Samba and/or FreeBSD's networking, I would much appriciate any links or advice. Thanks. Kudos to the FreeBSD and Samba teams for all the time and effort you put into these products, which we all use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message