From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 14:15:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220A414CB8 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:15:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:15:26 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105928@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail)" Subject: Poor Samba performance on 3.2-STABLE. Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:17:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a samba problem, which I will be going to www.samba.org for, but I wanted to ask here also, incase someone else has run into this. Background: I installed 3.2-RELEASE and upgraded to -STABLE this weekend. I was running 2.2.8 before this. In both instances Samba-2.0.3 was running on the box. Network performance was never stellar with samba but it was acceptable and problems were sporadic. Problem: To put it bluntly, my samba performance sucks. And it is not a network or disk I/O limitation. I have 100BaseTX (half-duplex) cards in both machines. One is a windows 98 machine and one is FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE. When I try and copy files from the 98 machine to the BSD machine via samba I am getting ~400KB/sec. If I transfer files via FTP I get anywhere from 2-5MB/sec. Now I realize that the lower end of my FTP performance is disk I/O. I also realize that samba incurs some overhead and smb performance is never as good as raw FTP performance. But it should not be over 5x slower, and wasn't in the past. I am using the exact same samba config file as before. Also, I don't know if this is relevant, when I look at trafshow, or just look at the hub, it appears to be sending in chunks. It'll do a small burst of info, then stop for a good second, then send, then stop, etc... Thanks for any help, Chris "...and now we take you back to our regularly scheduled program." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message