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.
Whats the network, and whats the connection each system has to the network? If its all 100Mb network, you're probably not going to get there, unless you're using ftp and the wind is blowing right. If its gigabit network, you have a tuning or a saturation problem. > 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. If its a 100Mb network, that number is a lie. :) > 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. Keep your samba configs as simple as possible. Disable everything but basic authentication, disable any ACL translations, and then debug the SAMBA server process to see what else its calling to see what you can turn off. There is an option or two in the smb.conf file that increases read/write size, which may help .... -- -- John E. Jasen ([email protected]) -- No one will sorrow for me when I die, because those who would -- are dead already. -- Lan Mandragoran, The Wheel of Time, New Spring _______________________________________________ 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/
