[Samba] Slow and unpredictable Samba performance?

[Charles Marcus]

On 8/26/2008, Dennis Clarke (dclarke at blastwave.org) wrote:
> smb: \backup\studio12\> get SunStudio12ml-solaris-sparc-200709-pkg.tar.bz2
> getting file
> \backup\studio12\SunStudio12ml-solaris-sparc-200709-pkg.tar.bz2 of size
> 1194253206 as SunStudio12ml-solaris-sparc-200709-pkg.tar.bz2 (11145.3
> kb/s) (average 11145.3 kb/s)
> smb: \backup\studio12\> quit
> dclarke at aequitas:~$
> 
> So is that okay over a 100Mbit/sec connection ?

Pretty danged good... but using 'get' or ftp is not a proper comparison
to file transfer using Windows clients.

And of course, I wasn't saying there wasn't a problem, or that 7.5-8.5MB
was 'normal' and/or couldn't be improved upon with some tweaking... I
was simply pointing out that it wasn't quite 'disastrous', as he
initially suggested...

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Best regards,

Charles