Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 18:37:06 +0930 From: Michael Ritchie <michaeljritchie@bigpond.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SAMBA throughput increases when NIC bandwidth is decreased Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20020915183202.00b94808@mail.bigpond.com>
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I am running SAMBA 2.24 on a FreeBSD 4.6.2 box, a 1GHz PIII with 256MB RAM and a nice big, fast scsi hard drive. My problem is that I cannot get a decent amount of bandwidth out of it. I have tried adjusting the smb.conf file, based on SPEED.TXT, but I still cannot draw more than 300 or 400 k bytes/second out of it. I tried scaling its ethernet switch port down from 100MBPS full duplex to 10half, and the speed more than tripled -- up to 1200 kbytes / second. I can't explain this --- help?? I have also tried a variety of NICs, from 3com etherlink 905b to Intel EtherExpress Pro100 and a D-Link card. All exhibit similar behaviour, although not to the extent of the 3com. Any suggestions or thoughts? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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