When using 1 client, it is 95% idle, when using 2 clients it is 85% idle. When using 2 clients the throughput roughly doubled (from ~4MB/s to ~8MB/s)
PS: nice tool btw On Monday 04 of October 2004 15:58, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > 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 -- Best regards, Bostjan Skufca system administrator Domenca d.o.o. Phone: +386 4 5835444 Fax: +386 4 5831999 http://www.domenca.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
