I've been doing some testing between Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) and Windows 2000 Server (no SP and SP4) -- specifcally testing file transfers from a Samba 2.2.8a server.
Samba server: P4/2.2GHz, ServerWorks chipset, SCSI UW2 disk subsystem (Bonnie++ tested to 35MB/sec), 3Com (acenic) gigabit ethernet Win2kPro: P3/700, 3Com Vortex 100mbit network card Win2kServer: P3/800, 3Com Vortex 100mbit network card Switch: Baystack 350-24T with fiber gigabit module No registry hacking done to either client (and in previous testing, no amount of TCP/IP hacking on Win2kPro helped) Samba config file changes: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=65536 SO_RCVBUF=65536 max xmit = 65536 read size = 65536 getwd cache = Yes locking = Yes The various shares have "use sendfile = yes" Initial testing shows that the Windows 2000 Server stack is almost _twice_ as fast as the Windows 2000 Pro stack. It's unbelievable that Microsoft would cripple their product this way. One of the test runs is available at http://www.mixdown.ca/~andrew/win2ks-win2kp.png. There are three transfers. Ignore the first. The second is an ~1.3GB transfer from Samba to Win2kServer, and the third is the same transfer but to Win2kPro. I have never been able to get Win2kPro to go faster than what is shown there. Any hints or tips or comments are welcome. Regards, Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
