From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 2: 7:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BE237B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta05ps.bigpond.com (mta05ps.bigpond.com [144.135.25.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C26843E72 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaeljritchie@bigpond.com) Received: from Michaels-Laptop.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.84]) by mta05ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta05ps May 23 2002 23:53:28) with SMTP id H2H2NZ00.5FD for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:07:11 +1000 Received: from ppp587.sa.padsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.245.74]) by psmam06.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 110/4676410); 15 Sep 2002 19:07:11 Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20020915183202.00b94808@mail.bigpond.com> X-Sender: michaeljritchie@mail.bigpond.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 18:37:06 +0930 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Michael Ritchie Subject: SAMBA throughput increases when NIC bandwidth is decreased Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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