Samba performance on Fast Ethernet networks when linked to Win95

Simon Hyde shyde at poboxes.com
Sun Dec 14 23:49:25 GMT 1997


On Sun, 14 Dec 1997 22:10:01 +1100, you wrote:

>THE RESULTS
>***********
>The tests were made using a 25 Mb file for transferring from/to the
>server. No other disturbing processed were running on the server.
>The best result in transferring file were
>
>Using Samba & Windows Explorer to copy
>--------------------------------------
>SERVER -> Win95 Workstation  40 sec
>Win95 Workstation -> SERVER  16 sec
>When doing this transfer, the LED from the network card is flashing from
>time to time (0.2 sec on, 0.4 sec off), the average load of the hub is
>about 5% and the "collisions LED" is on merely all the time.
>
>
>Using Win95 ftp
>---------------
>SERVER -> Win95 Workstation 12 sec
>Win95 Workstation -> SERVER 24 sec
>When doing this transfer, the LED from the network card is flashing all
>the time , the average load of the hub is about 40% and "colisions LED"
>blinks from time to time.
>
>Using Linux ftp from a Linux Worksation, I got the same 12 sec when
>transferring file (approx 2.2 Mbytes/sec) . the HUB load was 40% and
>very rare collisions.
>

How about smbclient on the Linux Workstation -> SERVER and SERVER ->
smbclient on Workstation




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