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Date:      Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:06:35 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Arkadi Shishlov <arkadi@mebius.lv>
Subject:   Re: Poor Samba throughput on 6.0
Message-ID:  <20051110090429.J33260@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <43727712.4020500@rogers.com>
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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> I have done many tests to try to determine the poor performance on my 
> systems (FreeBSD-current connected directly to Windows XP via identical 
> Intel Pro 1000 cards) and my only conclusion is that Samba on FreeBSD 
> when talking to a Windows box is simply fubared. Im willing to bet thats 
> not the case on Linux. I can get great speeds (~30MB/s) using ftp 
> between the machines, but when i use Samba, i get a maximum of 11MB/s. I 
> have tried playing with mtu size, samba options, polling, but there does 
> not seem to be any visible bottlenecks, its just simply slow. It would 
> be great if someone could get to the bottom of this, its quite 
> frustrating.

There are a number of TCP related configuration frobs on FreeBSD.  It 
would be quite interesting to know how modifying each of the following 
settings affects Samba performance:

net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack
net.inet.tcp.sack.enable
net.inet.tcp.inflight.enable

There has been recent evidence that the inflight bandwidth calculation is 
having problems generating stable performance at high bandwidth and low 
latency, so I might try that one first.

Robert N M Watson



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