[KLUG Members] slow samba performance...

[Mark Bystry]

Ron,

  I'll try those things today. Thanks for the tips. There are more things I would like to test as 
well. I'll re-post once I find some more clues.

Mark

Ron Sweeney wrote the following on 5/1/2006 4:58 PM:
> Mark,
> 
> I have had success in tweaking Samba by setting the TCP delay options:
> 
> 
> local area network install of Samba:
> socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
> 
> wide area usage:
> socket options = IPTOS_THROUGHPUT TCP_NODELAY
> 
> The TCP_NODELAY seems to have the biggest impact for most networks. I
> have gained noticeably by dropping the following into
> /etc/samba/smb.conf...
> 
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> 
> Use Ethereal to give you a tcp stevens graph for before and after perf
> snapshots...
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> 
> On 5/1/06, Mark Bystry <mabystry at verizon.net> 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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