Eric Wood wrote:
I have followed this thread and believe I'm suffering from the same problem. File copying is terribly slow on one of my customers networks. The 8-port hub (which is plugged into a larger network switch) is a no-name piece of junk. However is worked fine when only network printers (jetdirects) was on it. Now that a windows XP box is on that hub, performance went down hill and I even get errors in the syslog about failed smb gethostnames or something like that.
-Eric Wood
Yeah, SMB is so blame chatty, and so impatient, that it just cacks on a hub. I'd never have believed it before, but when they can get a 24-port 10/100 DLink switch for $91 from newegg (shipped!), why mess around with technician time? At typical consultant bill rates, that switch will cost them less than an hour of technician time.
I bet if you fire up ethereal on that hub, you'll see plenty of TCP retransmits... -- Jeremy Anderson jeremy (at) angelar.com http://www.angelar.com/~jeremy -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
