On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:31:50PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > >Can you try using smbclient to do a large file transfer from > >another client Linux box and time that please ? > > Minor rant. One thing that slightly bugs me about smbclient is that it > reports the transfer rate as "kb/s", which means nothing to me. Is this > "KB/s" or "Kb/s"? Well, it's the former: kilobytes per second. So > shouldn't it say "KB/s"?
Easily fixed. I'll probably do that. > BTW, I get 43 MB/s with a single 12 MB file on GbE without any socket > options; linux -> linux. Ok, that's the same as the Windows systems right ? Should be higher than that. Ok, at least we've removed the black box from the system - everything can be examined in open source code now. You should be able to get 100MB/sec (or close to it) I think. You might need to try looking into tbench/dbench to examine where the bottleneck is : http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/dbench/README Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
