--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:07 AM 3/17/2003 -0800, Abhijit Vijay wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >I came to know from some of my labmates who did a > >performance test, that Linux Samba access is > >*significantly* slower (order of three times) than > >Windows SMB. Is there any reason why this could be > tru > >and can this problem be fixed at all? > > I can think of any number of reasons as to why it > *could* be true. Better > understanding, though, requires better information, > such as ... > > 1. What version of Windows versus what versions of > Linux and Samba?
Client (Dual Boot): Linux - RedHat 8.0 - kernel-2.4.18-26.8.0 - samba-2.2.7-2 - samba-client-2.2.7-2 - mounted share read-write using smbfs Windows XP - Windows XP Professional SP1 - Mapped network drive Server - Windows 2000 Server > 2. Are there any hardware differences between the > test servers? (For that > matter, is the comparisone even between servers and > not clients?) Any load > differences? Any LAN differences? We are comparing client access from Windows and Linux to a single Windows server. The client is a dual boot system so all tests were run on the same hardware. > 3. What do you mean by "access" and "slower"? Does > it mean, for example, > that that actual bps speed of a file transfer > differs between the two > setups by a factor of three? Or that it takes 3 > times as long to get a > listing of available hosts? Or are we even talking > about file access (and > not print queueing)? Copy files from Server to Client 402 MB (avg file size 58kB) Linux => 2.71 MB/sec WinXP => 3.42 MB/sec Copy file from Server to Client 0.99 GB (avg file size 86,630 kB) Linux => 4.06 MB/sec WinXP => 8.49 MB/sec > I don't notice a similar performance difference > here, but that's based just > on casual observation, not controlled tests. I'd be > interested in the > details of a controlled test, so please do follow up > with more information. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
