[Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS
I have SLOW file transfers across samba to my Windows Server 2000 domain. I am using a built in 100bT Intel Pro NIC, I have tried the built in gigabit NIC and a PCI 3com, all with the same results. Using iperf, I get about 45-90Mb of bandwidth from my PC's to my samba server. I can pull it up by \\servername file:///\\servername or \\ipaddress file:///\\ipaddress with out any issues. I can ping servername successfully. It is taking about 15 minutes to just pull across a 10mb file. I've seen a lot of complaints about this on the web via google but no one seems to have conquered it. Anyone have a fix for this? I would owe you a steak dinner. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 12:13, Anson Rinesmith wrote: I have SLOW file transfers across samba to my Windows Server 2000 domain. I am using a built in 100bT Intel Pro NIC, I have tried the built in gigabit NIC and a PCI 3com, all with the same results. Using iperf, I get about 45-90Mb of bandwidth from my PC's to my samba server. I can pull it up by \\servername file:///\\servername or \\ipaddress file:///\\ipaddress with out any issues. I can ping servername successfully. It is taking about 15 minutes to just pull across a 10mb file. I've seen a lot of complaints about this on the web via google but no one seems to have conquered it. Anyone have a fix for this? I would owe you a steak dinner. of course, you didn't say where... most of the time, this is caused by 100 baseT switch with 4 wire (2 pair) cables - cat 3 cables on cat 5 connection. causes hell with auto-negotiation. what is output of ifconfig? Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS
fxp1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.69.24 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.69.255 inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe20:ea29%fxp1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:e0:81:20:ea:29 media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex status: active -Original Message- From: Craig White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:09 PM To: Anson Rinesmith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 12:13, Anson Rinesmith wrote: I have SLOW file transfers across samba to my Windows Server 2000 domain. I am using a built in 100bT Intel Pro NIC, I have tried the built in gigabit NIC and a PCI 3com, all with the same results. Using iperf, I get about 45-90Mb of bandwidth from my PC's to my samba server. I can pull it up by \\servername file:///\\servername or \\ipaddress file:///\\ipaddress with out any issues. I can ping servername successfully. It is taking about 15 minutes to just pull across a 10mb file. I've seen a lot of complaints about this on the web via google but no one seems to have conquered it. Anyone have a fix for this? I would owe you a steak dinner. of course, you didn't say where... most of the time, this is caused by 100 baseT switch with 4 wire (2 pair) cables - cat 3 cables on cat 5 connection. causes hell with auto-negotiation. what is output of ifconfig? Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:43, Anson Rinesmith wrote: fxp1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.69.24 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.69.255 inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fe20:ea29%fxp1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:e0:81:20:ea:29 media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex status: active clearly not a Linux system...at least not something that I would recognize. I would try these troubleshooting techniques... - swap cables for known good cat 6 (gigabit ethernet), or cat 5 (100base T) - swap switch for a known good switch - check with sizable ftp transfers (instead of smb) to make certain that it is or isn't a samba issue. Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
RE: [Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS
Anson, Can you try setting the NIC to 10Mbps/Half and Full Duplex to see if the transfer times improve? I put in a switch a while back , and have a Lexmark Optra printer with a NIC capable\ of 10/100. The LAN cabling is shielded CAT3. The Optra would negotiate to 100Mbps with the switch, but printing took forever. I locked the NIC at 10Mbps, and normal printing resumed immediately. Sounds a little like your problem. I suspect something similar on your connection; CAT3/CAT4 cabling or bad cabling, and the NIC negotiating a higher connection speed than is actually supported. Hope this helps. Jim -Original Message- From: Anson Rinesmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS I have SLOW file transfers across samba to my Windows Server 2000 domain. I am using a built in 100bT Intel Pro NIC, I have tried the built in gigabit NIC and a PCI 3com, all with the same results. Using iperf, I get about 45-90Mb of bandwidth from my PC's to my samba server. I can pull it up by \\servername file:///\\servername or \\ipaddress file:///\\ipaddress with out any issues. I can ping servername successfully. It is taking about 15 minutes to just pull across a 10mb file. I've seen a lot of complaints about this on the web via google but no one seems to have conquered it. Anyone have a fix for this? I would owe you a steak dinner. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS
Would not the first action to be to test transmitting data with another application than Samba? For example trying NFS, FTP or something similar. I have also problems with Samba when transmitting larger amounts of data (100MiB or so) to the Samba machine. Samba (or something) would simply drop connections. However, using FTP or NFS things are nice and speedy. (Tested with 2.6.x and Samba 2.2.8a/3.0.2a) Anson, Can you try setting the NIC to 10Mbps/Half and Full Duplex to see if the transfer times improve? I put in a switch a while back , and have a Lexmark Optra printer with a NIC capable\ of 10/100. The LAN cabling is shielded CAT3. The Optra would negotiate to 100Mbps with the switch, but printing took forever. I locked the NIC at 10Mbps, and normal printing resumed immediately. Sounds a little like your problem. I suspect something similar on your connection; CAT3/CAT4 cabling or bad cabling, and the NIC negotiating a higher connection speed than is actually supported. Hope this helps. Jim -Original Message- From: Anson Rinesmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] Samba Slow, and I have high Quality NICS I have SLOW file transfers across samba to my Windows Server 2000 domain. I am using a built in 100bT Intel Pro NIC, I have tried the built in gigabit NIC and a PCI 3com, all with the same results. Using iperf, I get about 45-90Mb of bandwidth from my PC's to my samba server. I can pull it up by \\servername file:///\\servername or \\ipaddress file:///\\ipaddress with out any issues. I can ping servername successfully. It is taking about 15 minutes to just pull across a 10mb file. I've seen a lot of complaints about this on the web via google but no one seems to have conquered it. Anyone have a fix for this? I would owe you a steak dinner. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
