Samba's movin' SLOW!

David Collier-Brown davecb at canada.sun.com
Tue May 11 17:14:47 GMT 1999


Jason wrote:
|   I'm pleased to report that Samba's working reliably now, but I'm
| terribly concerned about its performance.  I'm trying to copy an
eleven meg
| file, and it's taken ten minutes!  I'm definately thinking it's a
client
| configuration problem, but I can't seem to think of anything to adjust
on
| this thing.  Got any ideas?  Or any refrences to other sources of
info?

	I'd try ftp on the same machine: if they're both slow,
	its hardware (or global tcp config), if only samba
	is slow, it's SMB-client-specific

--dave
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