[Samba] Access to shares too slow
Martin Mielke
martin.mielke at casino.com
Fri Dec 28 19:07:01 GMT 2007
Jeff Ross wrote:
> Martin Mielke wrote:
>> Charles Marcus wrote:
>>> Martin Mielke, on 12/28/2007 12:11 PM, said the following:
>>>> we recently moved our offices to a bigger place. Therefore all our
>>>> servers and network electronic had to be turned off... :)
>>>>
>>>> Well, I know it sounds odd but after the move Samba is much slower
>>>> serving the shares and users have to wait ages for the information
>>>> to be copied or moved across the network. In some cases, Windows
>>>> desktops seem to freeze until the data is retrieved from the Samba
>>>> server where the shares are hosted...
>>>>
>>>> Nothing has been changed nor modified. System and network
>>>> configurations remain the same, smb.conf is the same on the server,
>>>> we use the same IP range, gateways, etc etc.
>>>>
>>>> Any clues? Maybe I'm overseeing something really obvious... :-/
>>>
>>> First, I'd be looking at any changes that were made since last
>>> reboot - many times I've been bit by some change that doesn't get
>>> applied until a reboot.
>>>
>>> Other possibilities are a bad port on a switch (the one the server
>>> is on, since its affecting everyone) or a mismatched duplex mode on
>>> either the switch or server side of the network connection.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm...
>>
>> Both Samba server and switches are configured to use the same speed
>> and duplex mode.
>>
>> Samba server:
>> ---
>> # ethtool eth0
>> Settings for eth0:
>> Supported ports: [ TP ]
>> Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>> 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>> 1000baseT/Full
>> Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>> Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>> 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>> 1000baseT/Full
>> Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>> Speed: 100Mb/s
>> Duplex: Full
>> Port: Twisted Pair
>> PHYAD: 1
>> Transceiver: internal
>> Auto-negotiation: on
>> Supports Wake-on: d
>> Wake-on: d
>> Link detected: yes
>>
>> ---
>>
>> The switch is set to 100-FDx (100baseT/Full Duplex), so everything
>> matches...
>>
>> Still confused...
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>
> Any chance you've accidentally got a loop going between switches?
> (i.e. two cables connecting two switches instead of one?)
>
> Jeff
Nope.
I also thought of that :-)
Cheers
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