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Date:      Sun, 9 May 1999 18:59:54 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" <asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Samba performance?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905091847270.1592-100000@crydee.sai.msu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990509110340.7628l-100000@cygnus.rush.net>

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On Sun, 9 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> > > > Anybody has performance numbers for Samba on FreeBSD? I am getting only
> > > > about 300KB/sec on write (10MBit/s Ethernet; 21041 cards on both ends).
> > > 
> > > have you tried any of the suggested options such as "read prediction"
> > > and raw write/read?  they are documented in the manpages...
> > 
> > I did not try them. The default for "write raw" is yes; "read prediction"
> > is obsolete and does not work in Samba 2.0. I did not build Samba, took it
> > from precompiled packages. smb.conf is straight from my previous Linux
> > installation except one option to lpr which caused me much grief when I
> > was wondering why damn thing does not want to print.
> >  
> > > what's the best you get between 2 windows hosts on your ethernet?
> > 
> > Over 900KB/sec. FTP from the Samba server reaches 1MB/sec. (KB and MB are
> > 1000 and 1000000 bytes here, for simplicity).
> 
> Tuning samba is a bit tricky, there are some socket options you may want
> to turn on, read more docs and experiment, you may also want to compile 
> it yourself looking at all the options available.

Weird. It should work out of the box.

> Was performance this bad under Linux as well?

Of course not (that is why I am asking). I don't recall exact numbers, but
I was certainly getting well over 500KB/sec. And read performance is
reasonable (about 900KB/sec). On local writes I get about 2.3MB/sec which
looks close to hard drive performance.

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