<quote who="Peter Szmrecsanyi"> > Great a reply!!! I thought everyone had given up on me! > > OK for the specifications, it's a Compaq ProLiant 2500 server with: > - Dual Pentium Pro (200MHz) > - 256 MB EDO RAM > - 36GB RAID(0) Compaq Raid Array (two 18GB SCSI disks) > hdparm -tT gives: > /dev/ida/c0d0p4: > Timing cached reads: 192 MB in 2.02 seconds = 95.11 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 46 MB in 3.03 seconds = 15.18 MB/sec > - Compaq Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX NIC > > I can do FTP at 9 MB/s but the absolute max I can get samba up to is about > 4 > MB/s. I've tried installing version 3.0.14a, I'm compiling the old version > 2.2.12 as I write this... I managed to get quite a performance boost when > I > compiled the latest version for the i686 architecture (100% performance > increase using smbclient from another machine). > > What is annoying is that and NFS client in windows doesn't perform better > than the samba client (using a Linux client NFS is slightly faster than > FTP). I'm going to try compiling samba 3 without ACL support, then I'm > going > to try to install samba 2.2.12 if that doesn't solve it then I'll settle > for > a hardware issue and try to get hold of a 3C905 (3com NIC), after that > I'll > be out of ideas...
Have you taken a close look at top while doing the transfer? I also noticed that FC3 is more of a memory hog than previous versions. I found that 256mb of memory was way too low for most of my systems. I was getting a lot of swap space usage. I use hotsanic to graph my usage information. This might be a good idea for you also. It would help a lot. If you get any swap space usage, that is a clear performance killer. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
