Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-06 Thread Holger Krull
I heard (read) about the socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 line that resolves some problems. No, TCP_NODELAY is the standard setting for quite a while and setting the buffers to 8K makes them smaller on most systems. And doesn't help. smbfs is slow. And there is nothing s

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-06 Thread Samuel Krieg
Kevin Wheatley a écrit : Holger Krull wrote: Is there any patch (official/unofficial) available to fix this issue? None that i know about. You could try using mount.cifs. Arent there any changes needed for the samba server, just use other mount options? No changes on t

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-06 Thread Holger Krull
Kevin Wheatley schrieb: No changes on the server side. Just use mount -t cifs if you have that in kernel or as module. large readwrite = yes From smb.conf man page: This parameter determines whether or not smbd supports the new 64k streaming read and write varient SMB

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-06 Thread Kevin Wheatley
Holger Krull wrote: > >>>Is there any patch (official/unofficial) available to fix this issue? > >> > >>None that i know about. You could try using mount.cifs. > > > > Arent there any changes needed for the samba server, just use other mount options? > > No changes on the server side. Just use mou

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-05 Thread Holger Krull
Is there any patch (official/unofficial) available to fix this issue? None that i know about. You could try using mount.cifs. Arent there any changes needed for the samba server, just use other mount options? No changes on the server side. Just use mount -t cifs if you have that in kernel or as mo

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-05 Thread julius
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:19:09 +0200 Holger Krull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com schrieb: > > > Is there any patch (official/unofficial) available to fix this issue? > > None that i know about. You could try using mount.cifs. Arent there any changes needed for the samba

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread Holger Krull
Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com schrieb: Is there any patch (official/unofficial) available to fix this issue? None that i know about. You could try using mount.cifs. Is anyone familiar with this issue? Yes, this has been observed a lot. It's as far as i know based on smb packet size. smbfs will only

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Monday 04 October 2004 16:15, Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com wrote: > When using 1 client, it is 95% idle, when using 2 clients it is 85% idle. > > When using 2 clients the throughput roughly doubled (from ~4MB/s to ~8MB/s) Sounds like network isn't utilized to full potential. Rather strange, sa

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com
Is there any patch (official/unofficial) available to fix this issue? On Monday 04 of October 2004 15:46, Holger Krull wrote: > Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com schrieb: > > When using 1 client, it is 95% idle, when using 2 clients it is 85% idle. > > > > When using 2 clients the throughput roughly d

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread Holger Krull
Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com schrieb: When using 1 client, it is 95% idle, when using 2 clients it is 85% idle. When using 2 clients the throughput roughly doubled (from ~4MB/s to ~8MB/s) Is anyone familiar with this issue? Yes, this has been observed a lot. It's as far as i know based on smb packe

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com
XP is not problematic, linux is Regards, Bostjan On Monday 04 of October 2004 13:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Denis Vlasenko schrieb: > >On Monday 04 October 2004 12:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>I haven't found anything useful googling around so I decided to ask here. > >>

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread robert
Denis Vlasenko schrieb: On Monday 04 October 2004 12:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I haven't found anything useful googling around so I decided to ask here. I have a Linux server running Samba on 100Mbit/s ethernet. If I connect to it using WinXP, mount some share and download files from i

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com
When using 1 client, it is 95% idle, when using 2 clients it is 85% idle. When using 2 clients the throughput roughly doubled (from ~4MB/s to ~8MB/s) PS: nice tool btw On Monday 04 of October 2004 15:58, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Monday 04 October 2004 12:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hell

Re: [Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Monday 04 October 2004 12:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't found anything useful googling around so I decided to ask here. > > I have a Linux server running Samba on 100Mbit/s ethernet. If I connect to > it using WinXP, mount some share and download files from it it reaches >

[Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

2004-10-04 Thread Bostjan Skufca @ domenca.com
Hello, I haven't found anything useful googling around so I decided to ask here. I have a Linux server running Samba on 100Mbit/s ethernet. If I connect to it using WinXP, mount some share and download files from it it reaches about 9MB/s transfer rate. Using FTP gives even higher transfer ra