From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 02:26:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA07631 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA07625 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monster.telekom.lv by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA01268 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 6 Aug 1996 02:24:56 -0700 Received: from exchange.telekom.lv (exchange.telekom.lv [194.8.16.211]) by monster.telekom.lv (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA07526 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:23:11 +0300 Received: by exchange.telekom.lv with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BB8392.044A9080@exchange.telekom.lv>; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:23:04 +0300 Message-Id: From: "Haralds Jakovels (Exchange)" To: "'randyd@nconnect.net'" , "'brian@MediaCity.com'" Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: RE: Samba file I/O performance Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:23:02 +0300 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, i had 30kb/sec or so read/write speed to samba's drive until i changed the MTU size for win95, then i got something like 500kb/sec. i changed it to 552 bytes, which is, i think, minimum. >---------- >From: Brian Litzinger[SMTP:brian@MediaCity.com] >Sent: Monday, August 05, 1996 10:04 PM >To: randyd@nconnect.net >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org >Subject: Re: Samba file I/O performance > >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 > >http[s]://www.mpress.com >