On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Robert Adkins II wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a few users that are complaining about the "slowness" of > copying files to and saving files directly to the Samba server. From my > own recollections, the speed is rather identical to the speed we > experienced on our old Windows NT 4.0 fileserver. > > One thing that could be the impetus of this issue is that Samba > is serving up files, for opening and copying from the server to a local > workstation, nearly instantly (in most cases). > > I have looked at some Samba performance increase settings and > haven't had much luck with those, on my test server. I have played with > the SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF with limited success. I have also played > with the MTU settings and that did nothing but decrease client to server > write performance. > > The server is running the fastest IDE hard drives that I could > purchase at the time. (7200 rpm) The server itself is Red Hat 7.2 > running with Ext3FS. Without spending money, are there any other methods > through which I can dramatically increase the network write performance?
You should compare the file system I/O performance of ext2, ext3, rieserfs, xfs and jfs - and you could be in for a BIG surprise! - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
