ok, so i´ll try do this kind of art in the next couple of weeks... :)
thx again! micha Volker Lendecke wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:52:54PM +0100, Michael Gasch wrote: >> to speed up performance do you think it´s a good idea to use jumbo >> frames between the samba server and windows xp clients, which have a >> dedicated network link (point-to-point, no switch, many NICs) to the >> samba server each? > > Not sure. I'd have to look at a trace. But it might indeed > help. > >> Shared Filesystem->Samba Server 1->Share 1 >> |-> Client1 172.16.0.1/16 >> |-> Client2 172.16.1.1/16 >> >> if all machines are connected via 1GBE and we transport large files, i >> would expect 80% saturation of the network link with jumbo frames even >> when talking cifs?!?! > > Should be possible. But everything needs to be very well > tuned. And network tuning is more an art than a science :-) > > Volker -- Michael Gasch Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Human Evolution (IT Staff) Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Germany Phone: 49 (0)341 - 3550 137 49 (0)341 - 3550 374 Fax: 49 (0)341 - 3550 399 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba