> Now, if its not asking for too much, can you let me know > 1. the network chipsets used on your server and client > Main servers fileserv ~ # lspci | grep Giga 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
dev6 ~ # lspci | grep Giga 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) datastore0 ~ # lspci | grep net 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) datastore1 ~ # lspci | grep net 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) datastore2 ~ # lspci | grep net 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) datastore3 ~ # lspci | grep net 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0) Other servers: ASUS M2N clients (mostly XP SP3) mostly nforce chipset ASUS M2N / M3N > 2. which version of samba you are using 3.0.34 on all samba servers except 1 where I am testing 3.3.2. I am the only person who uses the samba share on that box so I can break it without consequences. > 3. What is your base server os? gentoo on all linux machines (30+) except for a few workstations that we had to use the vendor's choice. mostly running 2.6.26 openvz kernels and xfs filesystems for data with reiserfs for os. The systems all are using software raid5 or raid6 with 6 to 10 sata drives in each array. The slowest (10 x 250GB sata1 raid6 on fileserver) reads at 150MB/s while the fastest on datastore2 reads at 300MB/s and writes at nearly 200MB/s. > 4. Is your samba installed from precompiled binaries for the system or > have you compiled from source? Everything is compiled from source with gentoo. > 5. You mention that your server is a few years old. However how old is the > samba setup? (maybe I need to downgrade to lower version) > We started in 2000 with samba. I am not sure if that was samba 2 or 3 using ldap from the start. The samba setup has been upgraded ever since. At first we were using redhat (6?) but we moved on to gentoo in 2004 and all has been well ever since. > Thanks a million for the reply. > What are you using for authentication? I have seen this play a role in performance specifically I have 3 ldap servers now. They run as guests under openvz on a few of our servers. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
