On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:24:21PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > 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 worked with OEM's to get more than 100MB/sec on their NAS devices. Using the Intel NAS benchmark. > 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.) Have you enabled sendfile ? Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
