On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Ian McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > John Drescher wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> John > > Raid 5 is not a good setup for performance, full stop. >
Its not good for database performance and random small writes but it shines in large file operations. Either way a 3 disk raid5 (software or hardware) should be able to generate 100MB/s sustained on linux so this probably is not an issue. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
