Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 11:05:17 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" <asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba performance? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990509110340.7628l-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905091122580.587-100000@crydee.sai.msu.ru>
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On Sun, 9 May 1999, Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists) wrote: > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > Anybody has performance numbers for Samba on FreeBSD? I am getting only > > > about 300KB/sec on write (10MBit/s Ethernet; 21041 cards on both ends). > > > > have you tried any of the suggested options such as "read prediction" > > and raw write/read? they are documented in the manpages... > > I did not try them. The default for "write raw" is yes; "read prediction" > is obsolete and does not work in Samba 2.0. I did not build Samba, took it > from precompiled packages. smb.conf is straight from my previous Linux > installation except one option to lpr which caused me much grief when I > was wondering why damn thing does not want to print. > > > what's the best you get between 2 windows hosts on your ethernet? > > Over 900KB/sec. FTP from the Samba server reaches 1MB/sec. (KB and MB are > 1000 and 1000000 bytes here, for simplicity). Tuning samba is a bit tricky, there are some socket options you may want to turn on, read more docs and experiment, you may also want to compile it yourself looking at all the options available. Was performance this bad under Linux as well? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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