What type of file processors are you running along with samba?. Are you running the virus checking plugin or VFS(recycle bin)? Virus checking is very cpu and disk I/O intensive these can really slow down a samba server. I can't expect VFS is all that cheap either when moving big files.
Raghu A wrote: >> I mounted a samba volume on XP. XP and Ubuntu are connected over 100Mbps >> ethernet (router). >> >> I am writing a 4GB file from XP to Ubuntu and the transfer is extremely >> slow : only around 1-1.5 MB/s. >> >> This is not a network or disk issue since at the same time this transfer >> is gonig on, I can scp the same file from XP to Ubuntu at 3-4 times faster >> (around 6MB/s). >> >> What could be wrong? Even for this slow transfer, smbd seems to be taking >> quite a bit CPU (more than sshd for the transfer rate >> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
