Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-14 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Ian McDonald wrote: > John Drescher wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM,   wrote: >>> >>> Hi Volker,John, folks >>> >>> I upgraded the smb binaries to 3.0.24 and reduced the log level and my >>> samba servers now giving throughputs of 32-38 mbps with some

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-14 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM,   wrote: > Hi Volker,John, folks > > I upgraded the smb binaries to 3.0.24 and reduced the log level and my > samba servers now giving throughputs of 32-38 mbps with some spikes beyond > 60mbps . > > That's way below what John's getting. Anyway, I can at least finis

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-14 Thread godwin
Hi Volker,John, folks I upgraded the smb binaries to 3.0.24 and reduced the log level and my samba servers now giving throughputs of 32-38 mbps with some spikes beyond 60mbps . That's way below what John's getting. Anyway, I can at least finish off this installation as my samba server can match o

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-14 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:53:11PM -0500, John H Terpstra - Samba Team wrote: > My home network running Samba-3.3.1 over 1 Gigabit ethernet transfers up > to 90 Mbytes/sec. The file system is ext3 on a Multidisk RAID5 array > that consists of 4x1TB Seagate SATA drives. Hey, bragging time :-) Usi

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-13 Thread John H Terpstra - Samba Team
god...@acp-online.co.uk wrote: > Ok I am dealing with two John's here :) > > John Terpstra, > > Thanks for your reply. > > whoa ... 90 Mbytes/sec I would give an arm to get that kind of > throughput. Right now I am getting a little over 1% of that throughput :-D > > Can you tell me what nic

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-13 Thread godwin
Ok I am dealing with two John's here :) John Terpstra, Thanks for your reply. whoa ... 90 Mbytes/sec I would give an arm to get that kind of throughput. Right now I am getting a little over 1% of that throughput :-D Can you tell me what nic's, switch and cabling are you using in your setup?

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-13 Thread John H Terpstra - Samba Team
god...@acp-online.co.uk wrote: > John, thanks once again for the quick reply. > ... [snip]... > I am eager to understand how you are getting 50MB/s on samba transfers as > considering the overheads added by the samba protocol, you should be > getting 60-75 MB/s using scp/rsync/nfs. My home netwo

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-13 Thread godwin
John, thanks once again for the quick reply. I am using openldap for authentication. The ldap server's on the same system so theres no overhead added by authenticaion over a network link. I am using debian etch r5 as the base os. I am not sure of the samba version right now. I will have to check

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-13 Thread John Drescher
> Now, if its not asking for too much, can you let me know > 1. the network chipsets used on your server and client > Main servers fileserv ~ # lspci | grep Giga 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corpo

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-13 Thread godwin
Thanks John for the info. My installation is at a client who does a lot of work in the graphics and media domain and the average size of files is in gigabytes as most of the files are videos. The servers are branded dell poweredge with xeon processor and 4 gig ram. So I gather I can expect the sa

Re: [Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-13 Thread John Drescher
> Any one using samba on gigabit and getting anything like 25-35 MB/s? > please let me know if there are any gigabit specific optimisations / > changes. > I get 50MB/s (on large files) from my 5 year old 2 processor 2GHz opteron server at work to my 2.9GHz Athlon X2 desktop running windows XP SP3.

[Samba] 1MB/s gigabit transfers on dell poweredge

2009-03-13 Thread godwin
Hi, I have installed samba on a dell poweredge server. It uses integrated NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet card. My issue is that i am getting extremely slow speeds (about 1.2MB/s) on the gigabit network from linux as well as windows clients using when reading from the samba share. On the s