Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:32:12 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: 'Peter' <fbsdq@yahoo.com>, "'bblack@allstor-sw.co.uk'" <bblack@allstor-sw.co.uk>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance Message-ID: <01C0E395.284DE640.wmoran@iowna.com>
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Both: Send output from an ifconfig command to the list as well as details of the network: it will help others to help you. Ben: Try turning oplocks off in Samba on the FreeBSD box. Windows 95 handles oplocks very badly and I believe (although I don't know for sure) that Windows 98 has the same problem. FreeBSD does kernel oplocks, whereas Linux does not, so that explains the speed difference there, while Windows NT handles oplocks fairly well. I may be wrong on this, but it seems like that's what the problem is. Also, try an ftp transfer from the M$ boxes to/from the FreeBSD box and see if you get the same behaviour. That will help you determine whether it's Samba or FreeBSD that's the problem. -Bill -----Original Message----- From: Peter [SMTP:fbsdq@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:24 AM To: bblack@allstor-sw.co.uk; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:FreeBSD - Windows '98 performance I am having the same damn problem. Win to Win == 2.5MB/sec FreeBSD to Win = 200kb/sec FreeBSD to FreeBSD = 200 - 500 kb/sec. This was tested with 30MB file via ftp [ftp server is both on Windows and FreeBSD, tested both ways.] Are you using LINKSYS LNE100TX cards by any chance using the dc0 driver?? On 05/23/2001 9:10:13 AM, bblack@allstor-sw.co.uk is quoted as saying: . . . .|Please help! . . . .| . . . .|I am running Samba 2.0.7 on a FreeBSD (4.1) RAID box. Copying files of . . . .|approximately 500Kb from a Windoze '98 box is giving absoultely dire . . . .|performance, in the region of 500Kb/s. . . . .| . . . .|On the same network I have run the same test from NT - FreeBSD which gives . . . .|about 3.7Mb/s and from Windoze '98 - Linux (running Samba 2.0.7) which . . . .|gives around 4Mb/s so it appears the problem is to do with FreeBSD. . . . .| . . . .|The fact that Win98 - Linux provides decent figures suggests it isn't a . . . .|Samba thing which was my first suspicion but I have reached the end of the . . . .|road with what to try next. . . . .| . . . .|Any advice/suggestions would be gratefully received. . . . .| . . . .|Thanks, . . . .| . . . .|Ben Black . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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