> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:05:38 +0100 > "Leo B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: John Drescher > > > On 11/20/06, Nguyen Kim Huy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > It seems bottleneck of harddisk > > > > > > > > That was my first reaction as it is difficult to sustain 50MB/s > > > > file > > > system transfers (unless the files are large and a raid is > > > used) but he said the file was cached and also if it was > waiting for > > > the disk it would have shown up as wa time in top. > > > > Exactly. I read the file several times on the server until > it was cached. > > Notice also that the local transferrate is like 500 MB/s then. > > > > Leo B. > > > But your client computer does not use cache?. > Your copy a file on samba server to client computer HDD, > so it may still have posibility of harddisk bottle neck at > your client computer! >
No, I wrote a client program which does the reading benchmark without writing anything to the harddisk, it just reads the file from the server and shows the speed. No bottleneck there. I also assured that the file is not cached on client side. Leo B. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
