Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:35:42 +0000 From: "Ian Kallen" <ian@gamespot.com> To: brian@MediaCity.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Samba file I/O performance Message-ID: <199608051230.MAA04235@gamespot.com>
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Which ethernet cards are you using and which ones were running afoul? (fbsd & win95) thanks! > 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. > > -- > Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD > <brian@mediacity.com> http[s]://www.mpress.com > > Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com Director of Technology & Web Administration http://www.gamespot.com
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