Re: [Samba] Performance issues: have eliminated disk and network as cause

2010-04-01 Thread James Cort
Just been told the config file didn't appear in the email as it went out (even though it certainly appears in the copy I've got), so I'm attaching inline this time. Oh, BTW: it's version 3.4.7 on Debian Lenny, installed from backports. [global] workgroup = U4EATECH netbios name

[Samba] Performance issues: have eliminated disk and network as cause

2010-03-31 Thread James Cort
Hi, I'm not entirely happy with the performance I'm seeing using Samba, and I wonder if anyone can shine any light. The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with hardware RAID10, 4GB RAM and a quad-core Intel Xeon processor. It's not live yet, so there's no load from other tasks. I've already

[Samba] Performance issues after samba update (utime?)

2008-02-26 Thread Alex Still
Hi all, We're experiencing performance issues after migrating from 3.0.8 to 3.0.28. Write performance has degraded about 30%, regardless of the size of file being copied. (tests described below are a single 150Mb file copy from an XP explorer) The setup is somewhat peculiar as the server is

Re: [Samba] Performance issues

2005-10-08 Thread Ryan Wright
Thank you both for your replies. I can't guarantee that this will solve your problem, but since you mention that you've replaced a server, there's a good chance that there are some stale invalid shortcuts lying around. It could be that Windows periodically is going out there looking for

[Samba] Performance issues

2005-10-07 Thread Ryan Wright
List, I apologize for the newbie nature of this post; I am sure there is an easy answer somewhere, but I've tried all the search terms I can think up and can't find it. I have some video archived on a White Box 4 machine. I watch it on a Windows XP box in the other room by mapping a drive to a

Re: [Samba] Performance issues

2005-10-07 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 10:08:33AM -0700, Ryan Wright wrote: List, I apologize for the newbie nature of this post; I am sure there is an easy answer somewhere, but I've tried all the search terms I can think up and can't find it. I have some video archived on a White Box 4 machine. I

Re: [Samba] Performance issues

2005-10-07 Thread Jonathan Johnson
I have seen performance issues where a Windows client (Explorer) takes a while to display a file listing on a remote computer, but then it accesses it just fine. Generally speaking, this is the opposite of what you describe, but it could be related. In investigating this, the problem (not the

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues (compared win2k)

2004-11-25 Thread Isaac Ojeda Llebry
El Miércoles, 24 de Noviembre de 2004 11:30, escribió: Are you sure it is samba who is causing delays and not the file system? No, you are right. I will try to change the file system from EXT3 to REISER. What file system are you using? Is the second access to a file as slow as the first? No,

[Samba] Samba performance issues (compared win2k)

2004-11-24 Thread Isaac Ojeda Llebry
We're running samba in our organization to serve files in a LAN to windows machines (almost XP), and we're having some performance issues with small files. With big files (ie, ISO images), it works pretty well. But, when small files are involved in the transference, problems arise. In the same

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues (compared win2k)

2004-11-24 Thread Gerald Drouillard
Isaac Ojeda Llebry wrote: We're running samba in our organization to serve files in a LAN to windows machines (almost XP), and we're having some performance issues with small files. With big files (ie, ISO images), it works pretty well. But, when small files are involved in the transference,

[Samba] Performance Issues

2004-11-03 Thread Simon Aridis-Lang
Hi, I've noticed this type of issue has been raised a few times, but I haven't been able to find a solution yet. I'm having transfer performance issues from various clients to my new file server : Server config is : Athlon 3200+ on Nforce 2 Yukon Gb NIC Gentoo with 2.6.9 samba

Re: [Samba] Performance Issues with GBit LAN

2004-10-13 Thread Steffen Timmermann
Dimitar Vassilev wrote: Read the links and adjust your values accordingly. I haven't been able to implement all options, but I have a similar problem on 10/100mbit net with a slack 10/2.6.8 kernel. The tips on netbios over tcp and computer browser were given me by my net admin. The rest I googled

Re: [Samba] Performance Issues with GBit LAN

2004-10-13 Thread Steffen Timmermann
Now I have built the RAID into the other machine with 700 MHz Celeron and the same GBit card. This Machine has also 384 MB of RAM, so this is upgraded too. The output of Bonnie tested on the Raid looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bonnie]# ./Bonnie File './Bonnie.2324', size: 104857600 Writing with

[Samba] Performance Issues with GBit LAN

2004-10-12 Thread Steffen Timmermann
Hi. I have 2 PC's connected with 1GBit NIC's. When I transfer a file from my File-Server(Redhat9.0, 256 SD-RAM, 300MHz PII, RTL8169 NIC, 2x Western Digital WD200JB RAID 0) to my Windows-PC(AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 1024 MB DDR-RAM, WINXP PRO, RTL8169 NIC, 2x Western Digital WD080JB RAID 0) with

Re: [Samba] Performance Issues with GBit LAN

2004-10-12 Thread Holger Krull
Steffen Timmermann schrieb: I have 2 PC's connected with 1GBit NIC's. When I transfer a file from my File-Server (Redhat9.0, 256 SD-RAM, 300MHz PII, RTL8169 NIC, What Chipset? Maybe Intel BX? The at this time common Harddisk Interface can't read faster than about 9MB per second. If you use a

Re: [Samba] Performance Issues with GBit LAN

2004-10-12 Thread Steffen Timmermann
: 64 MB in 1.55 seconds = 41.29 MB/sec - Original Message - From: Dimitar Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Steffen Timmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sambaliste [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Performance Issues

RE: [Samba] Performance Issues with GBit LAN

2004-10-12 Thread Tom Hibbert
Hi Steffen At first: Thanks for the response. Here are the performance Measures of my Harddisks in the Server. As the Harddisks are not connected to the Onboard IDE, they're not limited to 9 MB/sec /dev/sdb is the RAID 0, Connected to the PCI Raid Controller Card. The only Share Samba provides

[Samba] Performance Issues with AutoCad 2003

2004-06-04 Thread Brian Merrell
Hello, we are using a Samba server (3.0.2a) here at work. It's running on a dual 1.4ghz opteron with two 250gig HD. Everything seems to be running fine except for AutoCad (which is the main program we run). Any time we try to save it can take up to 10 seconds, or each time we try to print it

Re: [Samba] Performance Issues with AutoCad 2003

2004-06-04 Thread Randy S
Have you tried dissabling the firewall just to test? /R Brian Merrell wrote: Hello, we are using a Samba server (3.0.2a) here at work. It's running on a dual 1.4ghz opteron with two 250gig HD. Everything seems to be running fine except for AutoCad (which is the main program we run). Any time

RE: [Samba] performance issues

2003-03-14 Thread Peter Carpenter
Have you tried deadtime = 15 or similar in your smb.conf? -Original Message- From: Mark Le Noury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 March, 2003 7:31 AM To: Samba (E-mail) Subject: [Samba] performance issues Hi, I have compiled and am running samba version 2.2.7.a on Redhat

[Samba] performance issues

2003-03-13 Thread Mark Le Noury
Hi, I have compiled and am running samba version 2.2.7.a on Redhat linux 7.3. I am having some performance issues with it and was wondering if I was doing something wrong. I have noticed that if I use samba in security = server mode, every time a new connection is made to the server from the

Re: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-07 Thread mike
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Vinay Kudithipudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:57:17PM -0500, Vinay Kudithipudi wrote: Hello Guys, I am having some problems

[Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-02 Thread Vinay Kudithipudi
Hello Guys, I am having some problems with configuring SAMBA with regards to performance. We are running SAMBA 2.2.3a on Dual PIII 1Ghz machines with 512MB of RAM. The server is running on a default server installation of Red Hat 7.2. We have a 500Gb RAID 5 drive using the Promise SX6000 Raid

RE: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-02 Thread Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
how are u measuring read and write speeds? -Original Message- From: Vinay Kudithipudi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues Hello Guys, I am having some problems with configuring SAMBA

RE: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-02 Thread Vinay Kudithipudi
Technologies Inc. -Original Message- From: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:13 PM To: 'Vinay Kudithipudi'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues how are u measuring read and write speeds? -Original

RE: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-02 Thread Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
so are you using xcopy or copy dos command in your script? -Original Message- From: Vinay Kudithipudi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:21 PM To: 'Javid Abdul-AJAVID1'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues Javid, I am running

Re: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-02 Thread jra
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:57:17PM -0500, Vinay Kudithipudi wrote: Hello Guys, I am having some problems with configuring SAMBA with regards to performance. We are running SAMBA 2.2.3a on Dual PIII 1Ghz machines with 512MB of RAM. The server is running on a default server installation of

Re: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-02 Thread Jay Ts
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:57:17PM -0500, Vinay Kudithipudi wrote: ===SMB.CONF=== [global] workgroup = MYGROUP netbios name = {HOSTNAME} wins server = {WINSSERVER} server string = {HOSTNAME} security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes log file =

RE: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-02 Thread Vinay Kudithipudi
be the cause here. Vinay Kudithipudi Associate Network Operations Engineer Spirian Technologies Inc. -Original Message- From: Jay Ts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:50 PM To: Vinay Kudithipudi Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

Re: [Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

2002-10-02 Thread jra
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:50:49PM -0500, Vinay Kudithipudi wrote: Jay - I tried the test without any options (i.e. all default) and still get the same results Javid - I am using copy Jeremy - All clients are Win2k or WinXP. I would very much like to blame the hardware for the problem,

[Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread John Coston
Hi all We are implementing samba-ldap to act as an nt pdc and are seeing performance problems. We have a 1ghz, 3gb Ram, 36gb box that is running samba-2.2.5 and openldap-2.0.23 under redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3. Clients are all Win2k SP3. All the ldap requests are to the localhost

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:57, John Coston wrote: 12:46pm up 2 days, 17:14, 3 users, load average: 20.24, 20.26, 20.51 129 processes: 106 sleeping, 23 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 36.1% user, 63.8% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 3229040K av, 3166372K used, 62668K free,

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread John Coston
it's software RAID-1 using two fast wide scsi 36 gb discs. Filesystem is ext3. We have one 30gb partition for share data, and the rest is for system and swap. here is some of output from dmesg: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. ... scsi0 :

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread Martin MOKREJ
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, John Coston wrote: it's software RAID-1 using two fast wide scsi 36 gb discs. Filesystem is ext3. We have one 30gb partition for share data, and the rest is for system and swap. here is some of output from dmesg: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread John Coston
here is the output of vmstat, iostat, and uname: [root@foo root]# vmstat 1 procs memoryswap io system cpu r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id 21 0 1 0 61384 148780 2763956 0 0 2

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread John Coston
sorry - the last iostat result is from another execution of the command (without the 1), not from the looping output. On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 02:22 PM, John Coston wrote: here is the output of vmstat, iostat, and uname: [root@foo root]# vmstat 1 procs

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread John Coston
Sorry for the confusion - if I run iostat I get this: [root@foo root]# iostat Linux 2.4.18-3 (foo) 09/24/2002 avg-cpu: %user %nice%sys %idle 16.790.00 26.39 56.82 Device:tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn dev8-0 11.80

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread Martin MOKREJ
On 24 Sep 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: probably you want to run the iostat 1 during heavier load... however the summary result does look funny to me... On my system we have ~ 1:1 ratio of reads to writes you have a ~ 1:200 ratio of reads to writes. Does that make sense in your

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 18:19, John Coston wrote: some output from ps wauxf: for smbd, all the processes are around this value: parky 1963 3.5 0.1 7488 3452 ?R07:37 15:41 \_ smbd -D for ldap, all of the processes are around this value: ldap 6150 0.0 0.1 75548

Re: [Samba] Samba performance issues

2002-09-24 Thread Robert Stuart
Hi, I'm rather interested in the outcome of this on or off the list; but I suspect there will be other people on the list who are interested - please keep posting to the list :-) I think we have very similar HW. We have a dual CPU (1.4G PIII) LPr2000 netserver with 10k and 15k drives. We