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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:13:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Vincent Fleming <vincef@penmax.com>
Cc:        "'Andy Doran'" <ad@psn.ie>, "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: samba performance
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.990305111252.23860E-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BE6710.A0EEE120@rembrandt>

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you really should ask the SAMBA mailing list as well.

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Vincent Fleming wrote:

> 
> Very strange... but mounting the filesystems asynch has no effect.
> 
> I'll have to look through the code to see if smbd is creating the files
> with O_SYNC or something.  I would think mounting the filesystems
> async would make a difference.  Hmm...  I thought we had it there!
> 
> Vince  
> 
> 
> 
> You could mount your filesystems with the async flag. Search the mailing
> list archive (of hackers) for the last two months for caveats and more
> information.
> 
> 
> Andy.
> 
> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Vincent Fleming wrote:
> 
> > Hi;
> > 
> > I've bee playing around with smbd, trying to adjust the performance.
> > 
> > I seem to be getting around 2200k/s (2MB/s) on reads, but only 315k/s
> > on writes!
> > 
> > Now, that's a BIG difference.
> > 
> > I've been going over the docs, and have tried all the suggestions in there
> > for increasing performance.  Does anyone out there have any more 
> > suggestions on how I can get the write performance to more closely resemble
> > the read performance?
> > 
> > I have the sources, and have enabled MMAP use, among other things.  So,
> > if any suggestions involve hacking the server, don't hesitate mentioning them!
> > 
> > My server:  (yeah, I know, I should use a better machine! It's pretty fast, though)
> >    AMD K6 233
> >    64 MB RAM
> >    Buslogic PCI Fast/Wide SCSI card
> >    Seagate Barracuda ST12550N Fast/Narrow 2GB drive
> >    3com 905B PCI 100 base T ethernet
> >    FreeBSD 2.2.7
> > 
> > My Client:
> >    PII 300
> >    320 MB RAM
> >    Adaptec 2940UW SCSI
> >    Seagate Barracuda ST32171W Ultra Wide 2GB drive
> >    3 com 905B PCI 100 base T ethernet
> >    Win98
> > 
> > They are directly connected with a cross-over 100 baseT cable, so they're
> > running full-duplex.
> > 
> > Thanks for any suggestions!
> > 
> > Vince Fleming
> > 
> > 
> > 
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