socket options

[Ricky Nance]

I didn't say remove, just mark it as a 'non favored' or 'depreciated'
option. Again, in some situations I am sure they are great, but in some it
seems to drop the connection speed by about 1800% (is that the right math?
5mb/s with socket options, 90 mb/s without?). I am really looking more for
suggestions (opening a discussion) on what to do with the option rather
than changing something right away.

Ricky


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Ira Cooper <ira at samba.org> wrote:

> I'm not in favor of removing them, because we actually use them for
> "good".  Like proper tuning, TCP Keep Alive durations, etc.  They are an
> important part of getting the server "right" for us.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ira
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Ricky Nance <
> ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.us> wrote:
>
>> Helping users on IRC (and watching kukks help them ;) ) has lead me to
>> believe that "socket options" are often more of a problem than a help. Now
>> I understand that with older kernels they likely provide some enhancement,
>> but with the newer ones, they seem to cause 'slow transfers' in a lot of
>> cases. I am curious if this option should be marked as deprecated in man
>> smb.conf and also if testparm should throw a warning to the user about
>> using them. What do you guys think on this?
>>
>> Ricky
>>
>> --
>>
>
>


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