From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 9 8:58: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crydee.sai.msu.ru (crydee.sai.msu.ru [195.208.220.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0707C14FB1 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 08:57:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Received: from localhost (asv1@localhost) by crydee.sai.msu.ru (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA01623 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 18:59:55 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 18:59:54 +0400 (MSD) From: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba performance? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 is obsolete and does not work in Samba 2.0.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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sergey Ayukov Sternberg Astronomical Institute http://www.ayukov.com Moscow, Russia http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/index-asv.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message