HI, I am trying to find out why an old slower machineis faster than a new faster machine.
I have a RedHat 6.2 server installation, it runs samba and I have been very happy with it. Filesystem is:- [darryl@keg darryl]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 1.2G 735M 387M 66% / /dev/hda1 40M 3.0M 35M 8% /boot /dev/hdc1 6.2G 351M 5.6G 6% /home /dev/hdd1 12G 3.3G 8.0G 29% /opt /dev/hdc5 5.7G 2.2G 3.2G 40% /usr/local/backup CPU, Celeron 433Mhz, 1Gb RAM, RH 6.2 Samba Version 2.0.7 /usr/local/backup is shared as a samba share which I have mounted as V:... I now have a second server, it is an Athlon 1.6Ghz CPU, 512Mb Ram with SCSI drive as main drive, IDE as aux and storage running RedHat 7.3 installation, Filesystem is:- [darryl@cascade darryl]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 372M 91M 262M 26% / /dev/sda1 45M 8.9M 34M 21% /boot /dev/sda5 703M 222M 445M 34% /home none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 1.9G 1.7G 125M 94% /usr /dev/sda7 251M 116M 122M 49% /var /dev/hda1 19G 2.2G 16G 12% /usr/local/backup /dev/hda2 17G 4.3G 12G 26% /opt/archive CPU Athlon 1.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, RH7.3 Samba V2.2.3a /usr/local/backup is shared as a samba share which I have mounted as Z:... Both machines run off a 100Mbps network and switch.. so I doubt the network is a problem. (infact if it is the network it is the network CARD as the network is only these three machines) The 6.2 machine runs fine, quick response. the 7.3 machine is slow, seconds delay when clicking on folders via Windows to open them. My desktop is a Win2k machine. Why would the newer machine be slower ?? I am at a loss. I suspect the SCSI drive, but cannot explain why.. Anyone got any methods or ways I can find out what is slowing it down? I wish to replace the Celeron machine, but as of now, i see no reason why as it is faster!?!? Thanks Darryl -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba