Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:51:58 -0700 From: James Brown <jb@syndicate.net> To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unacceptably poor samba performance. Message-ID: <37CAEEEE.67C1DAAC@syndicate.net>
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hi, i saw this same problem with 2.0.5a and 3.2-stable last week, everything was 100K/s talking to win98 and nt boxes. downgrading to 2.0.2 fixed it, network performance is great. i didn't try 2.0.3 or 2.0.4. good luck! james > Hello, > I am having trouble with samba. I am running 3.2-STABLE as of about 30 days > ago. I am running the samba-2.0.5a that was compiled about a week ago. I > have been running samba since version before samba-2.0 and I have been > having this problem all along. My samba performance is horrible, this is > from multiple machines. > > With FTP I can regularly get from 2-5MB/sec. With samba I'm lucky if I get > 500KB/sec, usually it's less. > > One machine is a windows machine and one is a the FreeBSD machine. The > windows machines will transfer via network neighborhood fine. Any of the > machines transferring to/from the FreeBSD machine via samba will get similar > poor performance. Again, FTP works perfectly fine. > > I would expect a bit slower performance from samba because there is more > overhead involved, but not by a factor of 10 or more. > > FreeBSD machine has an Intel etherexpress pro 10/100 (fxp0), half-duplex for > all cards. auto-switching 10/100 hub. All IDE drives. I'm currently using > vinum but I was having this problem before I started using vinum. > > Has anyone had similar experiences, and if so, can they shed any light on > the problem? > > Thank you, > -Chris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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