Do a search through the Samba list archives. This problem comes up from
time to time on this list.
Peter Lappo wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone else get poor performance when copying large files from a
Samba server to a PC in a Windows XP / Samba Linux environment?
Its faster copying from the PC to Samba by a factor of 12.
I'll probably give up soon and buy a network attached storage device
to save myself hours of messing around.
Peter
Peter Lappo wrote:,
I get long pauses if I just drag and drop any large file using
windows explorer from the server to the client. So its not confined
to using a mp3 player.
The mp3 player works fine when using a local file or when streaming
from another windows xp machine. See stats below.
Sometimes there is a long pause before anything appears to happen.
Here are some interesting transfer times on a 30MB file.
Transfer times and network peaks according to Windows Task Manager
are shown.
When using Windows Explorer to drag and drop files (ie at the pc screen)
PC -> Samba 5 sec 60% network peaks, no pauses
Samba -> PC 1 minute 20% network peaks, significant pauses
When using Fedora Nautilus to drag and drop files (ie sitting at the
server screen),
PC -> Samba 15 sec 20% network peaks, no pauses
Samba -> PC 1 minute 5% network peaks, no pauses
When using Windows Explorer to drag and drop files, (ie drag and drop
between local and remote pc)
PC -> PC remote 5 sec 80% peak, no pauses
PC remote -> PC 5 sec 80% peak, no pauses
The smbstatus didn't change throughout.
The problem seems to be sending data from Samba to the client.
It would be interesting to try Samba to Samba transfers but I don't
have the equipment set-up to try this.
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