On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:46:19PM -0000, Will Payne wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeing slow transfers to/from my samba server. I just tried to copy a > 270MB file from a samba share to an XP machine. At first, the estimated > time displayed as 141 minutes :( > > The odd thing is that if I then flood-ping from the server (in this case, I > pinged my dsl router), the transfer completes in about 10 seconds. Hitting > F5 repeatedly when browsing a share on the server also causes an increase > of speed. I seem to get *more* throughput when there's a higher load.. > Watching a video off a samba share is quite choppy and keeps stopping but > leaving the ping running seems to fix it. > > Any ideas? My google powers fail me..
Looks like an issue at the TCP level, or maybe a network device driver issue on the Windows box. Try setting "use sendfile = no" to try and change the TCP behaviour, or update the client network driver. Jeremy -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
