From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 14 15: 3: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB0737B400; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.aus.com (adsl-67-115-108-163.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [67.115.108.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E60C43E65; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:03:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsharpe@ns.aus.com) Received: from localhost (rsharpe@localhost) by ns.aus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6ENFgM09011; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:45:42 +0930 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:45:42 +0930 (CST) From: Richard Sharpe To: Doug Barton Cc: Chad David , , Subject: Re: tuning for samba In-Reply-To: <3D31F100.E79D1B77@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > Chad David wrote: > > > > So, I'm building a new box tonight and was wondering if anybody > > has any tried and true tuning parameters for samba on -stable. > > Since you never got any actual answers to your question, I offer the > following. The only samba tuning option I've ever seen make a difference > is enabling "socket options = TCP_NODELAY". Also, make sure that newreno Default: socket options = TCP_NODELAY > is turned off on the samba host. As for nfs mount options, I have found > that -3cisl works best for me, when the servers are sun, or netapp > boxes. How does turning off newreno help? We think we are seeing fast retransmit get confused in the presence of dropped packets. Is this possibly related? Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, sharpe@ethereal.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message