Samba (smbfs) performance problem

[Maier Gerfried]

Thank you for your fast and informative answer!

Urban Widmark wrote:

> Part of the problem is that cp checks for the best blocksize and smbfs
> tells it that it is 512 bytes. Using 'dd' allows you to specify the size
> of the blocks, so try this and see if you get better performance on "put":
>
> dd if=srcfile of=/mnt/smb/outfile bs=4096

Wow, the difference is enormous. (Somewhere around a factor 4!)

Is there any way to make smbfs tell, that 4096 is the optimum size?
(Somewhere in the kernel sources)

Thanks,
Maier Gerfried