From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 24 21:53:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from spock.webexc.com (zzz-216043142149.splitrock.net [216.43.142.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2434937B419 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 21:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spock.webexc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747E244; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 00:54:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 00:54:47 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Barton X-X-Sender: mbarton@spock.webexc.com To: stable@freebsd.org, Peter Ong Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing In-Reply-To: <017001c18bff$08a2e8a0$0101a8c0@haloflightleader.net> Message-ID: <20011225005152.X83054-100000@spock.webexc.com> Organization: Webexcellence MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Peter Ong wrote: > I apologize if I'm off. But it seems you guys are talking about > improving FBSD 4.5 networking performance. > > I am currently using FreeBSD 4.4 Release. It works great, but there is > that one problem Samba. I like Samba because it's functional. I don't > know if it's Samba's fault, or if it's BSD's fault, but it behaves very > erratically. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. > > When I used RH7.1, I installed Samba there as well. Samba worked fine, > but also with the same behavior. But it was somewhat more reliable on > RH than FreeBSD. I don't know if it's Samba itself or the OS, although > I'm inclined to say it is Samba. If so, disregard this message. > > When I used RH/Samba, I put all of my MP3 music there. I'd listen to it > on Winamp from my Win98 laptop. It worked fine... no skips. But when > I put it on FreeBSD, the first minute or so is skip free, but as it > passes that time limit it starts skipping... I mean, it blanks out as if > it's readying the cache faster than it's being transfered over the > network. My network is 10/100Mbits switched. > > The difference is now only the operating system. The box is a > P3/450/128MB. It had RH, then it moved to FreeBSD. Now, I'm having that > problem. Videos are even worse. I have some *.mov, and Real movie > files, that I must first download, and then I watch. I can't watch it > over the wire. > > This is just my two cents. Maybe 5 cents. Thanks. I'm using Samba 2.2.2 (port: samba-2.2.2_1) on 4.4-RELEASE and I do not have any of these problems when playing movies and MP3's. Perhaps it is the client OS? Not sure. I'm using Mac OS X's built-in SMB client and Windows 2000. -- Matt Barton Webexcellence matt@webexc.com Phone: 317.423.3548 x22 Fax: 317.423.8735 www.webexc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message