Thanks a lot for the advice. It will run these tests and try to find meaningfull information from them. I will post back results.
Thanks Juan Pablo ________________________________ From: Volker Lendecke <[email protected]> To: Juan Pablo <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremy Allison <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 3:49:17 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba performance On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 06:46:51PM -0700, Juan Pablo wrote: > Hi Volker, > > I've removed the SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536 and the 3 other setting, > reloaded samba and repeated the tests but still getting the same results for >the > > local tests and also from Windows. > > I am getting the following results in MBytes/s: > > Test type Local (dd) Local (smbclient) Window 7 > Case1 161 101 > > 63 > Case2 122 119 > > 68 > > Case1: Read 1000 files 8 MByte each > Case2: 4 processes each reading 1000 files of 8 MByte each > > Any idea how can I debug where the bottleneck is or why I get so low numbers > when reading from Windows? strace the smbd process with strace -ttT. Network trace. Look at "netstat -nt" while the test is running. Send/Recv queues full? Run top, is the CPU fully busy? There's no silver bullet for performance tuning unfortunately, sorry. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
