hi all, at some point, i noted that Samba access on my network was very slow compared to NFS. this was when I was using mandrake 9.0.
i tested again (both servers Mandrake 9.1) and i find that for copying a bunch of files (same files, the buffer is essentially cleared between tests because i read a *lot* of other files between tests), it takes around 54 seconds for NFS and around 80 seconds for Samba. the difference isn't as bad as i thought. so it was probably misconfiguration back when i was still using mandrake 9.0 that made samba incredibly slow (almost too slow to use, really). there might still be some misconfiguration now. uh, the times given above are with prelude running on the server (the same box is server for nfs and smb). without prelude i have: 54 seconds for NFS (hmmm, no diff :), and 82 seconds for Samba. yep, I guess there is definitely a difference, just not as much as i thought. this is with filesharing (both) using essentially the defaults. i haven't done anything to optimize because i don't need to. the data set, by the way, was 58Mb or so. i'm on a laptop and i only get around 10mbps. one of these days i'll test on two desktops at 100mbps. the difference doesn't seem to be due to the 10/100 Mbps differential (the server can do 100Mbps) since the difference between Samba and NFS is consistent. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph an xcdngl nntrstng jrnl Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
