>Thanks a lot for your reply. Alright, it was not a >bug in Samba after all. You were right, I was wrong, >excuse me for blaming Samba and being an idiot :) >But please read on, because I'm still lost here.
It's all right to feel repentant but don't exaggerate. You are OK, only a little stressed. >As I expected, this was not an issue with my physical >network setup or topology. These machines are on the >same desk with no routers in the middle, and my hub >might be old and suck but, as I had said, I can >achieve equal incoming/outgoing transfer rates with >other protocols such as FTP. By the way, by "there >are no collissions" I meant "no more collissions than >normal", just to remark that it wasn't a duplex or >network problem. OK. >This is what I did: I installed Windows XP in a >virtual machine (VMware) running inside the Windows >2000 box that was receiving from Samba at 100 KB/s, >with bridged networking. I transferred from Samba to >the virtual XP machine, and... consistent transfer, >with no pauses and very close to 10 mbps. It's still >the same physical computer and network card receiving >the traffic, but it's another OS picking it up. Of course, XP is supposed to be an improvement upon 2k, but that does not account fully for your problems. >So, my network was fine and there's something wrong >with my Windows 2000 installation, which means I'm >most likely going to be stuck with one of those >sticky Windows-like problems. Not necessarily. Have patience and take an unbiased look at your configuration. It may take some time but you can get it to work properly for sure. >This is a log generated by tcpdump for the transfer >of a 6 MB file from Samba to Windows 2000. It >includes the initial process of me hitting Ctrl+C on >the selected file and pasting it in a different >directory on the Win2k box. Win2k took about 3 >seconds just to copy the link to the clipboard before >turning the hourglass back into the normal pointer >(I know these terms sound lame but hey, it's Windows). > >http://nss.sytes.net/slow.smb.tcpdump.01.log > >Note how there are certain whole seconds where >there's no traffic at all, and some others where just >three or four packets go through. If necessary, use ethereal next time and store the fully detailed display in a print file. After compression it is much smaller. Your observation is correct, there are long pauses between payloads, but I don't see what it's waiting for. >Browsing a directory on a Samba share from the Win2k >box is really sloppy too: sometimes (at random), it >takes Windows a couple of seconds to retrieve >information on a file when selecting it, such as size >and whatever it shows in the status bar for the >currently selected file. Watching the hub's activity >LED indicates the presence of the evil traffic pauses >between packets. It's best to suppress the pop-up info in the file browser (clear the box at Options->Folder options->View->Popup-info) even when you don't have problems. >The main reason why I didn't want to send over my >smb.conf is that I had tried so many combinations >that I didn't know which to pick, but here's what I >had been always using: > >http://nss.sytes.net/smb.conf It's a clean little smb.conf. I don't believe those 8k buffer specifications in socket options do much good, but they're probably irrelevant. Therefore throw them out. On the other hand I wouldn't exclude "SO_KEEPALIVE" from socket options, so add it. I don't know what "dead time" does, but if you're sure you do, it's another toggle you can use in tests. I don't see much use for "interfaces" and "bind interfaces only". If you only have one NIC, you almost certainly don't need them. But who's the browser master in your workgroup? If you leave it undefined, then any of your clients will claim it and there'll be some broadcast storms from time to time when they're settling the issue who shall win the election. You should add the following options in [global]: wins support = Yes preferred master = Yes domain master = True and tell your clients to never start elections. That's "MaintainServerList"="No" under HKLM key SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters in the Win2K registry. I wish you good luck. ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba