got a 4.1-release machine that shares its disks via samba to a few
windows xp workstations and is transferring files slow as molasses (1 GB
file takes ~30 min to transfer). this machine serves FTP at ~10 MBps,
close to linespeed for 100 Mbit, so disk speed is not the bottleneck on
the server side. i expect to go gigabit on this stuff in another week or
two so any further tips that apply in that regime would be nice to see.
have read through the samba howto doc section on performance tuning and
have tried a number of the suggested knobs to no avail. here is what has
been added to the mostly default smb.conf that's being used:
read raw = yes
write raw = yes
oplocks = yes
max xmit = 65535
dead time = 15
getwd cache = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
the share sections of smb.conf look like so:
[d]
comment = d unencrypted
path = /d
valid users = @smb
write list = @smb
read list = @smb
force group = smb
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0770
directory mask = 0770
read only = no
i'm sure there are some of you out there using samba sans shite
performance like this, would appreciate clues on how to fix this.
cheers,
jake
