Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:44:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Mailing List (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Poor Samba performance on 3.2-STABLE. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990601174057.9491y-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105928@site2s1>
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > 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... Without info such as: top(1) cpu usage, actual samba config, ktrace(1) info, system/user time. how the heck can we help you? :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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