Can you eliminate samba by booting Knoppix on that XP box?
On Monday 20 September 2004 12:13 pm, James Kuhns wrote: > Meant to ask in my last post, does anyone have any ideas about that anomaly > I'm seeing? > > I'm still leaning towards samba as the culprit, I'm almost positive I can > rule out I/O issues. > > I designed the benchmark suite to perform transfers in two protocols in > both directions specifically to help isolate issues like this. Since > performing a "pull" in both protocols reads from the same data set on the > XP box, writes to the same location on the Red Hat box, sends traffic > through the same NICs and the FTP GET's throughput is good, shouldn't the > SAMBA PULL's throughput be just as good (relative to the protocol overhead > involved)? If that's the case, then the only thing I can see it being is > an issue with samba. > > James
