Gigabit Samba
Christian Barth
barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Mon Dec 17 03:42:04 GMT 2001
> 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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