With or without encryption? Increasing the number of threads will not necessarily increase performance. It may very well slow it down. There is a careful balance that must be kept between the SMB/CIFS and RX thread pools.
Jeffrey Altman ted creedon wrote: > In previous tests with 1.3.84 Windws client: > a 2 CPU 2.8GHz P4 client running at 80% on both processors (on the same die, > not a dual CPU box) loaded a dedicated 100BT net to about 35% transferring > files from a 1.2.11 server to the 1.3.84 Win client local drive. > > I did increase the cleint thread and process settings.. > tedc > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Jeffrey Altman > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:39 PM > To: Frank Burkhardt > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS speed over the net > > Frank Burkhardt wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 05:02:53AM +0300, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> >> >>>The Windows client defaults to using encryption while the >>>Linux client does not. That is the most likely cause of the >>>difference. >> >> >>AFAIK Lars uses Debian and the Debian OpenAFS init-script runs 'fs >>setcrypt on' by default after starting the client. >> >>Regards, >> >>Frank > > > Then I would look at the network configuration of the Windows > box. Using two very different hardware configurations on 100mbit/sec > full duplex lans I am able to fully saturate the network at below > 30% cpu utilization. So I am fairly sure the issue is not entirely > related to the windows client. > > Jeffrey Altman > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
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