Samba (smbfs) performance problem

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Fri Jan 18 10:56:03 GMT 2002


On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Maier Gerfried wrote:

> > 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?

Upgrade the kernel to 2.4.17.

/Urban





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