Does SMB need Push bits acknowledged? I had a similar problem with sloooow printing on OpenBSD, and had to set the AckOnPush parameter to enabled. That cured the printing issue for me.
Just a thought... Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Al [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 4:44 PM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Re: Horrendously slow transfer speeds in FC3 > is driving > mecrazy!!! Please help... - SOLVED! > > > Hi Peter, > > I am having a similar situation to what you have described in your > post. Were you getting normal throughput from the NIC in > question when > using protocols other than SMB? For instance I can't copy a > 90MB file > from the samba server but I can download it via http in no time. > > > peter wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I finally got round to running the tests with other NICs, > and I think I've > >solved the problem! > > > >With a 3c905B I get: > > > >SMB - 7.2 MB/s (45% CPU usage) > >FTP - 9.9 MB/s > > > >And with a DEC 21140 based card I get: > > > >SMB - 5.8 MB/s (36% CPU usage) > >FTP - 7.5 MB/s > > > >When compared to what I was getting (1.6 MB/s) with the NIC > that comes with > >the server (TLAN - NetIntelligent 10/100) it's a HUGE difference!!! > > > >Now I think that it's just a question of tweaking the > smb.conf file to get > >the SMB rate closer to the FTP rate! > > > >So it turns out that there is nothing wrong with FC3 or > Samba 3, it was just > >my old hardware! It's amazing what a DMA capable NIC can do > for the overall > >system performance. > > > >Peter. > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba