why is samba more performant with 8 MB buffer (which algorith is used)

[Joel Hammer]

You might find the Speed documents in docs/textdocs in the samba source
distribtions interesting.
Joel
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:35:52PM -0500, Snoop wrote:
> 
> Objet : why is samba more performant with 8 MB buffer (which algorith is
> used)
> 
> Hi im doing a project on samba and its global and more technical functions,
> what id like to know is why samba is more performant with 8MB buffer instead
> of a  16MB buffer.
> 
> Does anybody know which algorithm is used
> 
> TIA for your time
>