On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:02:58AM -0800, Brian McGrew wrote: > It's primarily random IO. I know one customer is going to be storing Vmware > images on the box (but not a vmware server). Another is going to be a > generic file server and the last is going to be a home directory > server/desktop server for both Windows and Linux. So the speeds need to be > there. > > When I move a 4GB DVD image with SMB/CIFS I'm looking at +2 hours of > transfer time vs. ftp which will transfer in under 10 minutes.
Wow. Well, the fact that FTP is working ok leads me to believe it's not a hardware or network infrastructure issue (unless there's some sort of rate limiting going on on an intermediary network device). Still, might be prudent to check your switches and ethernet ports for error counts... duplex mismatches or something (though you'd expect FTP performance to suffer). Failing that, something sounds goofy on the Samba side. This probably isn't the appropriate list to troubleshoot that, but you'd most certainly get some assistance on the Samba list. You'll want to post your smb.conf file, etc. We use Samba here on similar setups and get far better performance than you're seeing just so you know it's possible. :) Ray _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
