fabrizio Manfredi wrote:

> The strange things is on the write operation : 
> http://www.beolink.org/downloads/afs-performance/write-speed.jpg, 
> the difference btw case 2 and 3 is 50% of the speed.
> 
> At the moment we didn't find a good reason for this performance reduction, we 
> have made many different test with different chunksize, but nothing is 
> changed. ..

CIFS operations frequently flush data to disk.  In the case of the
Samba-AFS gateway this will require a network operation.  It is bound to
be slower.

You might want to consider a performance test between the OpenAFS for
Windows client and the Samba AFS gateway.  I would be interested in
seeing the results.

Jeffrey Altman
Secure Endpoints Inc.

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