I had some problems with the stock samba in RHEL4 which is pretty much based on Fedora Core 3. I have 2 servers doing samba on a high availability configuration with heartbeat and drbd. NFS transfers are really fast (both servers are connected with gigabit cards to the lan). Samba transfers were around half of NFS. What made things even worst is the fact that I had remapped the "My Documents" folder to the smb mounted home directory H:\My Documents. Then very randomly, some times I would double click on the My Documents folder on the desktop, it would take 10 to 15 seconds just to open it. I tried several things, changed WINS server configurations, disabled Web Folder service, and pretty much tried everything suggested on the samba3 documentation but none of that fixed my problem.
My last test was to get the latest samba srpm, recompile it, take off all the stock RHEL packages and installed samba 3.0.14a. After that, I always get instant satisfaction when I double click on the mapped My Documents folder. If you are using stock samba rpms from FC3, maybe you want to also try recompiling the srpm from samba.org to see if that help speed things up. Diego > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of peter > Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 6:19 PM > To: 'AragonX'; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Samba] Horrendously slow transfer speeds in FC3 is > drivingmecrazy!!! Please help... - SOLVED! > > Hello, > > I finally got round to running the tests with other NICs, and I think I've > solved the problem! > > With a 3c905B I get: > > SMB - 7.2 MB/s (45% CPU usage) > FTP - 9.9 MB/s > > And with a DEC 21140 based card I get: > > SMB - 5.8 MB/s (36% CPU usage) > FTP - 7.5 MB/s > > When compared to what I was getting (1.6 MB/s) with the NIC that comes > with > the server (TLAN - NetIntelligent 10/100) it's a HUGE difference!!! > > Now I think that it's just a question of tweaking the smb.conf file to get > the SMB rate closer to the FTP rate! > > So it turns out that there is nothing wrong with FC3 or Samba 3, it was > just > my old hardware! It's amazing what a DMA capable NIC can do for the > overall > system performance. > > Peter. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
