why is my smbfs slow vs. smbclient/Sharity?

2005-09-14 Thread Tom Pepper
Running a 5.4-STABLE build from May 9 Having poor write performance to a number of different hosts/networks using cp/rsync via mount_smbfs. Performance hovers in smbfs writes near 600kB/sec. Using FTP/Sharity/smbclient in samba3 write performance is more like 8-9MB/sec. Is there a perfor

Re: Audio / Video Streaming

2005-09-11 Thread Tom Pepper
If you're looking for on-demand streaming (each client connects and views a stream starting from the beginning) as opposed to live streaming (many clients join a single video/audio feed and stream from whatever live moment is currently playing from the source), as one author of the now-ubiq

NFS client performance against MS SFU 3.5 NFS Server

2005-09-08 Thread Tom Pepper
All: Anyone having any good fortune with performance of NFS shares in a current 5-STABLE against Windows 2003 Services For Unix 3.5 server? I'm able to, with some pretty extreme tuning, get as much as 1MB/sec out of a 100Mbps link, but I'm able to FTP to and from the same host at 8-10MB/