Hello,

I try to find out how can I improve the performance of our samba installation. For this I install a testbed with a linux server (samba and nfs), a linux client, a windows 2003 server and a windows XP client.
All computers are connected with gigabit ethernet.

If I use NFS between the linux client and server I get 65MByte/sec, which is quiet a nice performance. If I use CIFS between the linux client(smbmount) or windows client and the samba server I get only 16MByte/sec. If I use CIFs between the windows client and windows server I get 35MByte/sec. This the more than double speed of the samba server.

What can be the reason for these different speeds? How can I improve the performace of my samba server. I play around with socket options and max xmit option. But this does not help. At the moment this values are set: socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_SNDBUF=65536 SO_RCVBUF=65536
   max xmit = 65536

I find out, that I can speedup the connection between linux client and server if I use smbclient with the option -b 15000 . Than I get 30MByte/sec.
How can I set this option with smbmount and on the windows client?

Thanks a lot,
Andrea



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