On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:52:29PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > > I believe I have some hardware or configuration related performance > issues running samba 3.0.14a-3sarge. > > Our server is an Intel Celeron 2 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM and a 3ware > card using SATA disks in a RAID 5 configuration (3ware controller card). > We have a gigabit network and are using Intel Gigabit ethernet cards > e1000). > > When copying large files to the samba shares on the system, the transfer > rate maxes out near 100 mb/s. We tested with nttcp and were able to get > speeds of nearly 800mb/s. So I think it is safe to conclude this is not > a network issue. > > Various tools like top, xosview and mpstat convinced us that we are > bound in the CPU. Stopping the samba file transfer and the cpu idle time > exceeds 90%. We are convinced that our CPU is the bottleneck, > but not sure why.
Have you tried transferring the files using smbclient ? That will tell you if it's a Windows client issue. I'm assuming you're using Windows clients although you didn't give that information in your message. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba