You are definately getting sub-par performance. The difference between where you are and where you need to be is not tweaking. We run Samba right "out of the box" for a high-speed realtime requirement, and we don't have to tweak it at all to get 40 or so megabytes/sec out of it with properly configured servers and gigabit networking. And we could probably push it harder if we want to - we're getting high responsiveness at that level.
I would look at the client side of the problem - try a newer kernel. We had performance problems using 2 Linux boxes in past kernels - I don't remember when it was solved, but it works beautifully now. On 2/1/06, James Lamanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > Between 2 linux (2.6.11 client and 2.6.14 server) machines connected by > a 100Mb link I get samba performance copying a file from the client to > the server through a smbmounted share of around 4.2MB/s > Is this to be expected? Or can it be improved (and if so, how?) I've > tried tweaking SO_(SND/RCV)BUF (after reading numerous articles on > samba performance...), but it doesn't seem to have any effect. > Unfortunately, I can't use jumbo frames at this moment either. > > I've tried this with shares on ReiserFS and XFS and there is no > difference in the transfer rate. > Both machines are not even close to maxxed on cpu (both are at around > 10-15% cpu when the transfer is running). > > Thanks. > > -- James > -- > 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
