On Monday 04 October 2004 12:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't found anything useful googling around so I decided to ask here. > > I have a Linux server running Samba on 100Mbit/s ethernet. If I connect to > it using WinXP, mount some share and download files from it it reaches > about 9MB/s transfer rate. Using FTP gives even higher transfer rates. > > BUT > when I use linux to connect to (linux!) server, mount shares and download > files then transfer speed reaches only about 3-4 MB/s. Using smbclient is a > bit faster (0.5-1MB but not always). Using other linux workstations (faster > machine) i could only boost transfer rate to 5.0-5.5MB/s. > > Server and workstation machines are using 2.4.27 and samba 2.2.12 > (slackware distro). > > Is anyone familiar with this issue?
You may want to dig more facts: * is server CPU 100% loaded or not? Client CPU? * does bandwidth increase if you download several large files from same share in parallel? You may use attached program to collect various statistics. I compiled it with dietlibc. -- vda
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