Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:00:27 -0400 From: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Any idea why Sharity-Light is at least 3X faster than smbfs here? Message-ID: <20041006050027.GV564@kirk.dlee.org>
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I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE on a P166 and trying to copy very large (but under 4 gig) files from FreeBSD to a Windows 98 (Second Edition) P866 machine. Neither machine has much other load. (The FreeBSD version probably doesn't matter; I've seen this on many 4.x revisions in the same hardware configuration. My network is 100BaseTX Ethernet and uses a hub, though during this test there are no machines on the LAN other than these two. I only see a few packet collisions per minute on the dc0 interface of the FreeBSD machine, which is the interface on this LAN and which produces the following info at boot time: dc0: <ADMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xffbefc00-0xffbeffff irq 10 at device 20.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Anomaly: Contrary to Sharity-Light docs, which say smbfs is faster, A Win98 share as just described accepts data about three times faster if mounted via shlight than if mounted via smbfs. I'm wondering if anyone knows why. (For comparison, I believe ftp moves about two times even faster than shlight.) Please Cc me directly. Thanks very much for any input. -- Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com "No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow." --unknown source
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