On Thursday 05 July 2007 00:48, Arno Schäfer wrote: > - copying a 700MB file from the CIFS share of the Windows XP box to a > different Windows PC starts immediately and takes about two minutes. > > - copying the same file via HTTP from the new Samba server takes a > little more than one minute (10.5 MB/sec). > > - copying the file from the Samba share varies hugely. It can take > between 90 seconds and literally hours (!). > > - sometimes it goes faster, but almost always the startup time is > between 20 and 90 seconds, that is the time before the copying even begins. > > - I have found repeatedly that when I am copying a file from the Samba > share, and it goes extremely slow (estimated time 90 minutes), and I > start copying a second file (from the same or a different PC), suddenly > the copying speeds up to "normal" speed.
Run tcpdump and watch what is going on the wire. This very likely to give more info: you will see retransmits, or data being sent in very small packets, or big spans of nothing being sent... strace -p <smbd process pid> can also be useful. -- vda -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
