Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:51:41 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: "'jb@syndicate.net'" <jb@syndicate.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Unacceptably poor samba performance. Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C0E@site2s1>
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Actually the problem is solved. There is a bug/incompatibility in Samba 2.0.5a that causes horrible performance on FreeBSD. Apparently it's not a problem on other OS's. The changes that were made actually improve performance on other OS's. Anyway, downgrading is an option except that there are 3 security holes that have been fixed in 2.0.5a. There was a patch/fix posted to the comp.protocols.smb news groups by one of the samba dev team. I should check back in there an see if there have been any new developments, as this was a couple weeks ago now. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: James Brown [SMTP:jb@syndicate.net] > Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 4:52 PM > To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com; questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Unacceptably poor samba performance. > > 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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