On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 07:22:45PM +0100, Roger Lucas wrote: > I mean "TCP" not "TFTP" in the mail. All hail the automatic spellchecker... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Roger Lucas > Sent: 10 October 2005 18:27 > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Poor performance between linux boxes using Samba 3 > > I have a network with two machines on it, both running Debian and updated > with the latest Debian stable samba (3.0.14). Both machines are reasonably > high spec (512MB RAM and Athlon 2200+ processors) and have little else > running (console mode, no KDE/Gnome/etc). They are connected by a Netgear > FS108 100-Base-T ethernet switch. > > > > When I try to copy a large file (500MB) from machine A to machine B using > FTP (Machine B running vsftpd) then I get 9.5 MB/sec throughput, so my > 100-base-T network is running at full speed and full duplex, as I would > expect. > > > > When I instead try to copy the same file from machine A to machine B using > FTP (Machine A running "smbmount -t smbfs //machineb/share /mnt/machineb -o > user=xxx,password=xxx") then I get much lower throughput - around 3 MB/sec.
Can you try using Steve French's cifsfs client instead of smbfs. Steve is actively maintaining cifsfs and is working on performance issues. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
