On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:04:10AM -0600, Matt Harris wrote: > Jeremy Allison wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:57:16PM -0700, Matt Harris wrote: > > > >>Hello. > >> > >>I am setting up a smb server running debian etch for a small office. Due > >>to circumstances outside my control, most of the client machines are > >>running Windows Vista Ultimate. The shares are all set up properly, > >>security is set, and we're good to go. > >> > >>Except that the throughput from any of the Vista machines to the server > >>is at best slow and at worst abysmal. After tweaking the socket options, > >>turning off various services in windows (Remote Differential > >>Compression), and even installing the freshly-released SP1, the best I've > >>been able to get is 12.5 MB/s reading from the samba server. SCP gets > >>35-40 MB/s, and Vista to Vista transfers using SMB get 35-40 MB/s. > >> > >>I'm in the unfortunate position of having to recommend to my boss that we > >>put the data on another Vista machine and use that as a makeshift file > >>server until this problem can be ironed out. I very much do not want to > >>tell him that. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. > >> > > > >Try loading the "readahead" vfs module on the shares Vista is accessing. > >I'm assuming the Samba code is on Linux ? > > > >Jeremy. > > > The readahead vfs module had a slight impact, but not nearly as much so > as moving to a better ethernet card.
Ah, didn't notice the date on the original email (it just showed up this morning :-). Glad things got fixed. Just for interest, how much did the readahead help ? Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
