On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:22:53AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > 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.
As always: What about get/put of large files with smbclient, >= 3.2? Volker -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
