Pol Hallen put forth on 9/15/2010 9:36 AM: > debian stable (samba version 2:3.2.5-4lenny9) > > from clients by ftp the transfer of huge file is about 10/11Mb/s (with an > ethernet 10/100) > > by samba came 5/6Mb/s > > is it correct?
Good luck. It appears that tuning smbd and clients, both Windows and smbclient, to get anywhere close to wire speed is somewhat of a black art. I asked the same question many months ago, and dropped the subject after Jeremy said it had to be a problem with the W2K redirector. Funny thing is, that same W2K redirector can pull at almost wire speed from a WinXP box. The most I've ever been able to get out of smbd is ~8MB/s. I'm running 3.2.5-4lenny12. To get anything better than that I'll have to go to GigE. I probably won't get anywhere close to wire speed, but I should get at least 30-40MB/s, which is 4-5 times what I get now, and would thus be a huge improvement for relatively little cost--a few NICs and a decent desktop GigE switch can be had for around $100 USD. Even without using jumbo frames this would be a huge improvement over 100FDX. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
