Doug Lee wrote:
I have done smbfs mounts on win xp and its slow for me too. Transfers to xp are horrifically slow! I had just 2 machines(the ones doing the transfer) on the switched 100base T network at the time. Last time I attempted a smbfs was a earlier this year on a box running current or 5.2.1.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.
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