From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 21:26:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA04708 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 21:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from s4.elec.uq.edu.au (clary@s4.elec.uq.edu.au [130.102.96.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA04702 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 21:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from clary@localhost) by s4.elec.uq.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.12) id PAA19425 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:24:37 +1000 (EST) From: Clary Harridge Message-Id: <199603040524.PAA19425@s4.elec.uq.edu.au> Subject: FreeBSD / samba transfer rate problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 15:24:37 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi we are finding that when we do ftp transfers between a samba client running WfWg and a FreeBSD samba server WfWg client <==> WfWg client 191 Kbyte/sec WfWg client => Samba server 191 Kbyte/sec WfWg client <= Samba server 19.9 Kbyte/sec i.e. a factor of 10 slower going from a FreeBSD samba server to a WfWg client. Can anyone suggest what might be causing this bottleneck? Do I need to tune something on FreeBSD or on the samba system? -- regards Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Clary Harridge University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072 Phone: +61-7-3365-3636 Fax: +61-7-3365-4999 INTERNET: clary@elec.uq.edu.au