What sort of performance is expected over GigE, with Samba 3 as the server and XP64 as the client? I havn't been able to find any current benchmarks at all.
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-June/156708.html talks about the same configuration, and suggests that the protocol should be able to break 100MB/sec. (Unfortunately, the poster disappeared without following up.) Focusing on read throughput (Samba to XP64), I see about the same performance as he did, around 50 MB/sec; with HTTP 97.7M/sec. Modern HDDs can regularly hit 100MB/sec, so halving throughput for large file copies is painful. I've always assumed this was just a limitation of the protocol on a link much faster than it was designed for, but that post suggests otherwise. He didn't mention if the Server 2008 system he was comparing against had large frames enabled, though, which I've never had much luck with. (I'll wait until asked before digging out hardware/configuration info, traces and so on; if the performance I'm seeing is already optimal then I won't bother. I'm on 3.4.0, which is what's packaged with my version of Ubuntu; I'll also try upgrading to 3.5.x if that's likely to help.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
