Could it be the disk?
Can you do a:
hdparm -t /dev/sda
Then benchmark your XP disk with www.hdtune.com
HTH
Oliver
Arno Schäfer wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to migrate my files from a Windows XP Pro box to a new
server running OpenSuSE 10.2/Linux 2.6.18 (x86_64) and Samba 3.0.25b.
The Server is a new Athlon 64 X2 4000+/1GB with two 400GB SATA disks
in a software RAID1 configuration. The share file system is reiserfs
on a 350GB RAID1 partition.
I have a small LAN with three PCs on 100MBit Ethernet and a Laptop on
WLAN on a 4 Port Switch/WLAN/DSL router.
I am experiencing extremely (an I really mean EXTREMELY) bad
performance. It is so bad that it can not have anything to do with
performance "tuning", it must be a configuration error somewhere.
Doing some comparisons, I find that
- copying a 700MB file from the CIFS share of the Windows XP box to a
different Windows PC starts immediately and takes about two minutes.
- copying the same file via HTTP from the new Samba server takes a
little more than one minute (10.5 MB/sec).
- copying the file from the Samba share varies hugely. It can take
between 90 seconds and literally hours (!).
- sometimes it goes faster, but almost always the startup time is
between 20 and 90 seconds, that is the time before the copying even
begins.
- I have found repeatedly that when I am copying a file from the Samba
share, and it goes extremely slow (estimated time 90 minutes), and I
start copying a second file (from the same or a different PC),
suddenly the copying speeds up to "normal" speed.
ifconfig does not show any collisions or errors, and as I said,
copying via HTTP is extremely fast.
The Linux installation is as barebones as I could make it, no X11, no
firewall (for now), no ZENWorks or AppArmor or anything. I already
once reinstalled everything from scratch, to no avail.
Any ideas would be immensely appreciated, as I am seriously
considering going back to Windows XP ;-)
Best Regards,
Arno
Here is my smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = MSHEIMNETZ
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
map to guest = Bad User
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
logon drive = P:
usershare allow guests = Yes
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d
/var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
domain logons = No
domain master = No
security = share
netbios name = FILESERVER2
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @ntadmin root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
[share]
comment = share
path = /share
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
browsable = Yes
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Asuncion - Paraguay | http://www.solojuegos.mobi
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