QOS on the network giving preferences to UDP vs. TCP? Obviously that is a stretch, but it could be.
On 6/20/05, John Broome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a RH 9 machine that is acting as a fileserver for a completly > windows network (98 & 2000), the users mentioned that the file > transfers seemed slow. > > Some testing showed that samba was moving data much slower than NFS. > Nfs was using pretty much the entire speed potential of the network, > where SMB was about half that, or less. > > No indication on the server that CPU, HDD, or memory is the problem. > > When tested off site with different hardware and a different OS > (Ubuntu 5.04), the same problem popped up. > > SMB dragging along, NFS cranking. > > Since this is a mostly windows network we can't really use NFS instead > of the samba. > > Has anyone else run into this? Some googling doesn't really turn up much. > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
