Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-26 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 19:51 -0400, simo wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 00:32 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: Jeremy Allison wrote: [SNIP] Test using a modern (i.e. much later than 3.0.33) smbclient. To back that up he is using CentOS 5, so there is no excuse for using

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-26 Thread Kevin Taylor
These are XP clients. Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:28:33 -0700 From: j...@samba.org To: groucho.64...@hotmail.com CC: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:06:48PM -0400, Kevin Taylor wrote: We have a RAID set up

[Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Kevin Taylor
We have a RAID set up as our main fileserver (running samba 3.0.33 on linux, CentOS 5). The main disk area is an XFS partition of about 8TB. I'm using iostat to monitor disk I/O since we've gotten complaints about speed and I'm noticing that when I write something to the samba share, the write

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Chris Weiss
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Kevin Taylor groucho.64...@hotmail.com wrote: We have a RAID set up as our main fileserver (running samba 3.0.33 on linux, CentOS 5). The main disk area is an XFS partition of about 8TB. I'm using iostat to monitor disk I/O since we've gotten complaints

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Kevin Taylor
@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Kevin Taylor groucho.64...@hotmail.com wrote: We have a RAID set up as our main fileserver (running samba 3.0.33 on linux, CentOS 5). The main disk area is an XFS partition of about

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:06:48PM -0400, Kevin Taylor wrote: We have a RAID set up as our main fileserver (running samba 3.0.33 on linux, CentOS 5). The main disk area is an XFS partition of about 8TB. I'm using iostat to monitor disk I/O since we've gotten complaints about speed and I'm

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
Jeremy Allison wrote: [SNIP] Test using a modern (i.e. much later than 3.0.33) smbclient. To back that up he is using CentOS 5, so there is no excuse for using such an old version. Needs to switch to the samba3x packages that have been present since CentOS 5.5 asap. From recollection it

Re: [Samba] Very slow write performance to RAID

2011-07-25 Thread simo
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 00:32 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: Jeremy Allison wrote: [SNIP] Test using a modern (i.e. much later than 3.0.33) smbclient. To back that up he is using CentOS 5, so there is no excuse for using such an old version. Needs to switch to the samba3x packages