This is old, but may still be relevant: <http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/1625.html>
For more pointers, try 'speed up samba client on linux' in google... And please report back if you find a solution, I've heard others requesting similar information. - Richard Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. I have a client that needs to download a file from Linux server > running Samba. > > This is for a digital cinema file transfer in the theater, and client > requires at least 90 Mbps for the transfer rate. > > They are getting around 65 Mbps using a Linux Samba client. (That's > two Linux systems, each one a custom digital cinema server.) > > Testing with a Windows client, I get 130 Mbps. > > Client wants their Linux-to-Linux file transfer to go faster. > (Ironically the systems in question were originally designed to > interoperate with Windows but there is no Windows present here. But > Samba is the only file transfer mechanism.) > > I was asked, can you make this go faster? So I tried upgrading the > Samba server from 3.0 to 3.3, but the difference is 2x. > > I reckon we're SOL trying to make the transfer faster with Samba. > That's not what it's made for and it's a wonder it works at all. > > I am going to ask one of the two vendors to add NFS support (the other > box already has it), and use NFS instead. > > Feedback/comments welcome. > > Best, > Aleksey > > P.S. I did experiment with disabling kernel oplocking but that made a > very small difference. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
