Hi list, I have been desperately trying to increase the transfer rate for a Gigabit ethernet connection between a Fedora Core 2, Kernel 2.6.x Intel-based Server with a Samba Version 3.0.3-5 and a Mac OS X client.
Transfer rates for Gigabit should do around 30 MB/sec my transfer rates do only around 10 MB/sec - with no significant difference between reads and writes. as the networking is supposed to deal with large files - 60 to 600 MB each - there might be some optimization for the Linux server - in terms of Buffer reads / writes - TCP stack configs etc. I am aware that my process table - in regards of the 'top' command - show delays for the smbd process, which means that CPU consumption by smbd is divided in half while process part for the "pdflush" increases. It also turns out that meanwhile the smbd process 'stalls' - userspace and buffer memory are getting freed. I have already stepped over the differenz misconfigurations in the MACH Kernel on the Mac OS X client and managed to improve transfer rates by 1 MB. I have even tried to network over NFS - which is about 6 MB/sec and therefore NOT an option. IS there any option to Improve the transfer rates further or must I depend on more expensive Hardware - such as a SCSI controller plus drives. At the moment the system runs three 400 gig seagate HDs over the Onboard IDE on an MSI board, IDE chipset VT 8237 (Via), Gigabit NIC is a Via VT 6122 based (velocity module). Thanks for your suppord in advance Kind Regardez Florian Stahl,CIO xantury.com - hardtallee 29 - 35398 gie�en - germany -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
