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Date:      Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:04:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com>
To:        randyd@nconnect.net (Randy DuCharme)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Samba file I/O performance
Message-ID:  <199608051904.MAA07281@MediaCity.com>
In-Reply-To: <32015C44.5358@nconnect.net> from Randy DuCharme at "Aug 1, 96 08:39:16 pm"

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Randy DuCharme wrote:
> Greetings,
>    Are there any ways to improve the I/O performance of a Samba server.
> File copies from DOS / Win95 stations seem slow compared to a similar
> hardware configuration running NetWare or NT...or is this normal??

I've been running Samba on a FreeBSD machine serving a number of
Win95 machines and originally noticed the same behavior.

I eventually determined that the FreeBSD machine was sending the large
samba packets to the Win95 hosts so fast that is was overflowing
the Win95 machines ethernet cards and hence a large number of
retransmits were happening.

I upgraded the ethernet cards in the Win95 machines and all is better
now.

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