From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 22:36:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C2F16A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:36:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nevans@talkpoint.com) Received: from relay.talkpoint.com (pobox.talkpoint.com [204.141.15.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3A543D45 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nevans@talkpoint.com) Received: from ASSP-nospam ([127.0.0.1]) by relay.talkpoint.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 17:36:36 -0500 Received: from 204.141.15.194 ([204.141.15.194] helo=pleiades.nextvenue.com) by ASSP-nospam ; 9 Nov 05 22:36:36 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 17:36:34 -0500 From: Nick Evans To: Mike Jakubik Message-ID: <20051109173634.22391fec@pleiades.nextvenue.com> In-Reply-To: <43727712.4020500@rogers.com> References: <70e8236f0511050457s5ce6d8batf805fbc9edd91360@mail.gmail.com> <20051109060931.GD5188@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <70e8236f0511090517g29b3f887x1b97ef5dec04548@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0511090627p24c90400ke39bdb0da222a323@mail.gmail.com> <4372184C.10809@mebius.lv> <43727712.4020500@rogers.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.15 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Nov 2005 22:36:36.0603 (UTC) FILETIME=[0B2C74B0:01C5E57E] Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Arkadi Shishlov Subject: Re: Poor Samba throughput on 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:36:38 -0000 On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:24:18 -0500 Mike Jakubik wrote: > Arkadi Shishlov wrote: > > Joao Barros wrote: > > > >> On a P4 3.06GHz with HTT enabled and ULE I get the same results. > >> I get a flat line at 58% looking at the bandwith in task manager on a > >> Windows 2003 Server while doing a cached read. > >> I can get up to 70% bandwith during writes. > >> Percentages are relative to 100Mbits bandwith. > >> > > > > Are you able to get better throughput from different version of FreeBSD or > > different OS (Linux) with Samba? > > > > I have done many tests to try to determine the poor performance on my > systems (FreeBSD-current connected directly to Windows XP via identical > Intel Pro 1000 cards) and my only conclusion is that Samba on FreeBSD > when talking to a Windows box is simply fubared. Im willing to bet thats > not the case on Linux. I can get great speeds (~30MB/s) using ftp > between the machines, but when i use Samba, i get a maximum of 11MB/s. I > have tried playing with mtu size, samba options, polling, but there does > not seem to be any visible bottlenecks, its just simply slow. It would > be great if someone could get to the bottom of this, its quite frustrating. > Has anyone tried mounting a FreeBSD/Samba share with smbfs from another FreeBSD machine? Also are the Windows PC's stock or have you tried tweaking TCP there?