On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Volker,John, folks > > I upgraded the smb binaries to 3.0.24 and reduced the log level and my > samba servers now giving throughputs of 32-38 mbps with some spikes beyond > 60mbps . > > That's way below what John's getting. Anyway, I can at least finish off > this installation as my samba server can match or exceed the clients > benchmark against his existing MS windows server. > > Since I am using 3 X 1 terabyte disks in a hardware raid 5 array disk I/O > should not be an issue. I expect the issue to be too may patch points (the > joy of structured cabling) or not too good switches. > I believe that actually is a problem. I mean you need more disks. 3 disk raid 5 is not a good setup for performance. I would say 5 is a minimum.
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