Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:45:42 +0930 (CST) From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@ns.aus.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tuning for samba Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207150840490.3238-100000@ns.aus.com> In-Reply-To: <3D31F100.E79D1B77@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Doug Barton wrote:
> Chad David wrote:
> >
> > So, I'm building a new box tonight and was wondering if anybody
> > has any tried and true tuning parameters for samba on -stable.
>
> Since you never got any actual answers to your question, I offer the
> following. The only samba tuning option I've ever seen make a difference
> is enabling "socket options = TCP_NODELAY". Also, make sure that newreno
Default: socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> is turned off on the samba host. As for nfs mount options, I have found
> that -3cisl works best for me, when the servers are sun, or netapp
> boxes.
How does turning off newreno help? We think we are seeing fast retransmit
get confused in the presence of dropped packets. Is this possibly related?
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org,
sharpe@ethereal.com
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