Gigabit Samba

[Christian Barth]

> I'm trying to run Samba on a gigabit network.
> On the server side I've got Samba 2.2.1 running on an sgi Origin200 with a 
> gigabit ethernet card plugged into a gigabit switch, and the files are being 
> served off a fibrechannel raid array.  On the client side I have a windows 2k 
> box with a gigabit card plugged into the same switch.  Both machines and the 
> switch claim that everything is running at 1Gb/s, yet file transfere doesn't 
> seem any faster than with fast ethernet.  
> 
> Is samba simply not able to serve up files at gigabit speeds or is there some 
> tweaking that needs doing to get it to do this, or is it simply some problem 
> with my network?
Compare the samba speed with the speed of ftp, http, ...
And: You may need a advanced PC hardware to get a big advantege from 
the gigabit network. Your network card is pluged into the PCI-bus of 
the PC and to my knowlage the standard PCI-bus is the bottleneck 
compared with a gigabit network.


Christian

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