[Samba] Tuning the performance of Samba over LAN network to improve I/O performance

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:11:54PM -0500, Himanshu Thapar wrote:
> For the numbers I am getting....Writing averages around 23Mbytes/sec and
> Reading averages around 33Mbytes/sec. I am aiming for 30 plus for writing
> and around 40 for reading. Both seem to be reasonable.

True, but first use hdparm to see what your
raw disk numbers should be. Also you first
posted Mbits/sec, not Mbytes, which were *very* low
numbers :-).

Jeremy.