Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:23:02 +0300 From: "Haralds Jakovels (Exchange)" <webby@exchange.telekom.lv> To: "'randyd@nconnect.net'" <randyd@nconnect.net>, "'brian@MediaCity.com'" <brian@MediaCity.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Samba file I/O performance Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Lattelekom%l=EXCHANGE-960806092302Z-65@exchange.telekom.lv>
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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 ><brian@mediacity.com> >http[s]://www.mpress.com >
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