[KLUG Members] slow samba performance...

[Chester Wisniewski]

Mark Bystry wrote:
> i have been cruising the net trying to figure out why file transfers
> to my red hat 9.0 box are slower (from my client winxp box) than they
> are to the windows 2003 server box. copying a 30 mg file to the
> windows server takes about 5 seconds. the same file take 30 seconds to
> send to the linux server.
>
>   my ethernet card on my client is set to auto detect. i have tried
> 100mbs/full duplex, 100mbs/half
> duplex, 10mbs/full, and 10mbs/half. auto detect is still the fastest
> but can't hold a candle to
> windows at this point.
>
>   i have never had performance issues before. so not sure if it's my
> client or the file server. have any of you ever experienced this? i
> just formatted and configured my workstation with windows xp pro sp2
> with all windows patches. this is my client station. i do this about
> once a year for good house keeping.
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Mark,

I have been seeing something similar on my samba server (Athlon 1800+,
only serving my home LAN). Granted, its running email, anti-spam,
anti-virus, LDAP, etc but it is only for my wife, myself, and I suppose
my puppy. When I bring up the Windows network graph in the task manager
I see very spiky traffic. 20MBit, then .06, then 60MBit, then 2MBit,
etc. Not a smooth transaction. When I copy files to another XP with a
open share, it goes about 80MBit solidly. Maybe your problem will prompt
me to do more investigation.

Chet