Samba (smbfs) performance problem

[Maier Gerfried]

Urban Widmark wrote:

> > > dd if=srcfile of=/mnt/smb/outfile bs=4096

>
> > Wow, the difference is enormous. (Somewhere around a factor 4!)
> > Is there any way to make smbfs tell, that 4096 is the optimum size?
>
> Upgrade the kernel to 2.4.17.

... Works quite fine now with 2.4.17 (about 3.5 to 4 MBytes per second
in every direction).
Thanks for your fast help!

Maier Gerfried