BAD performance with SAMB on aix

[joe vigil]

I've got an AIX 4.3.2 machine F50 with WONDERFUL samba performance. It
probably has to do with your socket options. In my samba config:
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=32768 SO_RCVBUF=32768

Try this!!!

- Joe Vigil
  I.S. Mgr
  Avibank Mfg., Inc.

Tomek Jarosinski wrote:

> Hello,
> I have 8 Samba servers with 300 clients here running on Sun and Linux
> machines with GREAT performance. Now in one departement i installed
> samba 2.0.6 on one 40K$ IBM F50 with AIX 4.3.2, 2xCPU, 256MB RAM,
> 100FDX, extern RAID 5 Tower . Performance is really very, very BAD. I
> tried already everything, but this IBM box with samba is just very SLOW.
> Browsing through directories, logging, copying - it all takes a very
> long time. The same client connected to Sun+Samba or Linux+Samba in the
> same network is incredibly faster. We are already thinking about
> exchanging this expensive machine with one 10 times cheaper Linux box
> ..
> Any ideas are welcome.
> --
> Have a nice day !
> Tomek Jarosinski
> Fachhochschule Hamburg - University of Applied Sciences
> 20099 Hamburg, Berliner Tor 21, R. 429
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