[Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

Samuel Krieg samuel.krieg at wng.ch
Wed Oct 6 09:40:34 GMT 2004


Kevin Wheatley a écrit :

>Holger Krull wrote:
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>>>>>Is there any patch (official/unofficial) available to fix this issue?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>None that i know about. You could try using mount.cifs.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Arent there any changes needed for the samba server, just use other mount options?
>>>      
>>>
>>No changes on the server side. Just use mount -t cifs if you have that
>>in kernel or as module.
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>>
>
>large readwrite = yes
>
>>From smb.conf man page:
>               This parameter determines whether or not smbd supports
>               the new 64k streaming read and write varient SMB
>               requests introduced with Windows 2000. Note that due to
>               Windows 2000 client redirector bugs this requires Samba
>               to be running on a 64-bit capable operating system such
>               as IRIX, Solaris or a Linux 2.4 kernel. Can improve
>               performance by 10% with Windows 2000 clients. Defaults
>               to off. Not as tested as some other Samba code paths.
>
>May help.
>
>Kevin
>
>  
>
Hello,

I heard (read) about the
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
line that resolves some problems.

Maybe could it solve yours.
sam


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