From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 9 11:19:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36B615AF8 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 11:19:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Sun, 9 May 1999 14:19:52 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110587B@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Alfred Perlstein' Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Samba performance? Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 14:21:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That particular option is turned on in my smb.conf file. Always has been actually, because i've been told that performance would be even worse with out it. Sorry I forgot to mention it before. If it is needed, I can post my .conf files when I get home from work tonight. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:bright@rush.net] > Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 2:40 PM > To: Christopher Michaels > Cc: Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists); freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Samba performance? > > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > > > in re Samba throughput being dog-slow... > > > > please, if possible post your machine's hardware configuration, there > > > are several tuning tips people never do that may be hindering > performance > > > if you can give me this information I may be able to help more... > > > > > > cpu, disk type, ram, etc... > > > > > > if you are using IDE disks, i recommed you try to change the "flags" > > > parameter to 0xa0ffa0ff and see if that helps, this will enable DMA > > > on your hardrives. > > > > > > -Alfred > > > > > My turn to chime in here. I have similar problems with my samba > > setup. I have a 100BaseT network, and can get consistent 5000kb/sec > through > > FTP (I assume this is a disk limitation). Any transactions that use > samba > > are significantly slower, usually 5x to 10x slower. So obviously this > is a > > samba tuning issue. I'll be darned if I can find anything that helps me > > though. I have checked out the 2 performance text files in > > /usr/local/share/docs/samba/ to no avail. > > > > (yes I have DMA mode turned on) > > > > So if there is a solution to this, I'd be interested to hear it to. > > I would get sambe running on my local network here but the only windows > box i have has a cruddy 10mbit card (my other boxes are 100mbit), perhaps > later tonight I can get this up and give you guys some tips. > (I've had samba tuned up before, it's just been a while and several major > releases of samba since) :) > > Another shot in the dark, try compiling/enabling TCP_NODELAY or something > that looks like that. > > Please tell us if it solves your problem. > > thanks, > -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message