Gigabit Samba

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Il 12:39, lunedì 17 dicembre 2001, Christian Barth ha scritto:
> > 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.
>
AFAIK, the standard PCI-bus can transfer up to 133 Mbyte/sec. Gigabit network 
only 125Mbyte/sec.  If there is an hardware bottleneck it must be the HD. 
My guess is that you have to do some tuning, but I may be wrong.

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