Very poor writing performance

[Inald Lagendijk]

Thanks for the tip. I did see the same slowdown with FTP. I guess
that something was wrong with the duplex or even with the (old) card.
I replaced the network card with another one, and the problem is fixed.

Thanks


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brodbeck" <DavidB at mail.interclean.com>
To: "'Inald Lagendijk'" <RLLagendijk at HoTMail.com>; <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 9:17 PM
Subject: RE: Very poor writing performance


> Do you see the same slowdown with FTP?
>
> If so, check your network, especially the duplex setting on both machines'
> ethernet cards.  They should all be half duplex if they're talking to a
hub.
> Having one card in full duplex will often cause exactly the symptoms you
> describe.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Inald Lagendijk [mailto:RLLagendijk at HoTMail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 3:17 PM
> To: samba at samba.org
> Subject: Very poor writing performance
>
>
> Hi;
>
> I am using Samba 2.2.0 on a small business network (192.168.1.x). I am
> running
> Suse 7.2 on a pentium pro 120. This machine is also the local gateway
(isdn)
> using
> masquarading. I have a 10 Mbs utp network.
>
> I am experiencing an extreme difference in read and write speed over the
> samba server.
> Writing from a windows machine (windows 98se) to the linux box gives me
data
> rates of approx 16 kByte/sec, reading from the linux box to the windows
> machine
> is near 1 MByte/sec.
>
> Using smbclient on the linux box, the situation is as bad.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this or how to do more elaborate tests?
>
> Thanks.
>
> R.Lagendijk
>
>
>