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I am having real bad results with the performance of samba - I wonder if
this is normal.

Last night I went to tranfer a rather large file across the little
network (3 Win98 and the Linux Server) from a Win98 to Linux.  The file
was about 170Mb and the NICs are all 10/100's but using a 10 hub at the
moment - so limiting the network to 10Mbps.

Windows estimated 91 minutes to complete the copy.  Needless to say - I
clicked the Cancel button.  I found in the end that I could ftp the file
across in a matter of minutes.

Also noted, was that the HD light in the Linux box was flickering
'nicely' - small blocks being written often, and running top showed the
the smb process was taking 100% cpu.

Any ideas where to start looking here?  or is this normal?

One thing I have not tried is getting a newer release of Samba, I can't
remember the version I am currently using, but it's the one that came
with my Caldera 1.3 build - and I know that a newer one is out - I
wonder whether this is one of the changes?

Any help would be great.

D

This is evident for the entire smb file sharing mechanism. SMB is always
slower than normal FTP.
cheers,
elmo

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Emilio M Recio
Office Of Information Technology
Thomas Jefferson University

|I am having real bad results with the performance of samba - I wonder if
|this is normal.

This much though!..  91mins for a 170Mb file - I am sure Windows to Windows
is a lot lot faster than that..  In fact - I know it is - on this same
network - I can boot the Linux box into Win98 and hey presto - my network no
longer seems like a wet piece of string.
D

Have you read Speed.txt that comes with the package?

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