[Samba] Vista Read/Write performance
Hello. I am setting up a smb server running debian etch for a small office. Due to circumstances outside my control, most of the client machines are running Windows Vista Ultimate. The shares are all set up properly, security is set, and we're good to go. Except that the throughput from any of the Vista machines to the server is at best slow and at worst abysmal. After tweaking the socket options, turning off various services in windows (Remote Differential Compression), and even installing the freshly-released SP1, the best I've been able to get is 12.5 MB/s reading from the samba server. SCP gets 35-40 MB/s, and Vista to Vista transfers using SMB get 35-40 MB/s. I'm in the unfortunate position of having to recommend to my boss that we put the data on another Vista machine and use that as a makeshift file server until this problem can be ironed out. I very much do not want to tell him that. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Matt Harris smb.conf excerpt below. [global] workgroup = UTOPIA server string = %h (file server) obey pam restrictions = Yes passdb backend = tdbsam passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . client NTLMv2 auth = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 smb ports = 445 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 load printers = No os level = 250 lm announce = Yes preferred master = Yes domain master = No dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d invalid users = root write cache size = 65536 include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf [shares here] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Vista Read/Write performance
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Matt Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am setting up a smb server running debian etch for a small office. Due to circumstances outside my control, most of the client machines are running Windows Vista Ultimate. The shares are all set up properly, security is set, and we're good to go. Except that the throughput from any of the Vista machines to the server is at best slow and at worst abysmal. After tweaking the socket options, turning off various services in windows (Remote Differential Compression), and even installing the freshly-released SP1, the best I've been able to get is 12.5 MB/s reading from the samba server. SCP gets 35-40 MB/s, and Vista to Vista transfers using SMB get 35-40 MB/s. I'm in the unfortunate position of having to recommend to my boss that we put the data on another Vista machine and use that as a makeshift file server until this problem can be ironed out. I very much do not want to tell him that. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Matt Harris Since this email is old (I got it in my mailbox today though) you probably figured it out but I will ask anyways. Are you using samba-3.0.28a? John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Vista Read/Write performance
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:57:16PM -0700, Matt Harris wrote: Hello. I am setting up a smb server running debian etch for a small office. Due to circumstances outside my control, most of the client machines are running Windows Vista Ultimate. The shares are all set up properly, security is set, and we're good to go. Except that the throughput from any of the Vista machines to the server is at best slow and at worst abysmal. After tweaking the socket options, turning off various services in windows (Remote Differential Compression), and even installing the freshly-released SP1, the best I've been able to get is 12.5 MB/s reading from the samba server. SCP gets 35-40 MB/s, and Vista to Vista transfers using SMB get 35-40 MB/s. I'm in the unfortunate position of having to recommend to my boss that we put the data on another Vista machine and use that as a makeshift file server until this problem can be ironed out. I very much do not want to tell him that. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Try loading the readahead vfs module on the shares Vista is accessing. I'm assuming the Samba code is on Linux ? Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Vista Read/Write performance
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:04:10AM -0600, Matt Harris wrote: Jeremy Allison wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:57:16PM -0700, Matt Harris wrote: Hello. I am setting up a smb server running debian etch for a small office. Due to circumstances outside my control, most of the client machines are running Windows Vista Ultimate. The shares are all set up properly, security is set, and we're good to go. Except that the throughput from any of the Vista machines to the server is at best slow and at worst abysmal. After tweaking the socket options, turning off various services in windows (Remote Differential Compression), and even installing the freshly-released SP1, the best I've been able to get is 12.5 MB/s reading from the samba server. SCP gets 35-40 MB/s, and Vista to Vista transfers using SMB get 35-40 MB/s. I'm in the unfortunate position of having to recommend to my boss that we put the data on another Vista machine and use that as a makeshift file server until this problem can be ironed out. I very much do not want to tell him that. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Try loading the readahead vfs module on the shares Vista is accessing. I'm assuming the Samba code is on Linux ? Jeremy. The readahead vfs module had a slight impact, but not nearly as much so as moving to a better ethernet card. Ah, didn't notice the date on the original email (it just showed up this morning :-). Glad things got fixed. Just for interest, how much did the readahead help ? Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
