[linux-cifs-client] Slow transfer with mount.cifs

[Nicki Messerschmidt]

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Hi,
I recently bought a NAS (network attached storage). This only supports
ftp and smb/cifs. I can mount this device with no problems using cifs or
smbfs, but the transferrate is far below of ftp.
While transfering files using ftp I get rates of about 8-10mb/s but with
cifs/smbfs I only get 1,5mb/s.
As I intend to use this as a backup device this speed is not tolerable.
Here are some specs to the "client system" running linux:
Kernel 2.6.14.3
Samba: 3.0.14a-3 (debian)
smbfs: 3.0.14a-3 (debian)

Using any options like SND_RCVBUFFER=8192 did not bring any performance
increase whatsoever.

Can you point me in a direction how to debug this slow speed?


Cheers and thanks,
Nicki

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