[Samba] Is Samba Slow?

[David Brodbeck]

smbclient is not very efficient, and smbmount is even worse.  I think if you
try the Samba server from an actual Windows client you'll find it's faster
than it is from smbclient.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Alcaraz [mailto:pabloa at mbasystems.com.ar]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:11 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org; Pablo Alcaraz
Subject: [Samba] Is Samba Slow?
Importance: High


The problem is: Samba is slow (4,5mb/s) compared with Novell (6mb/s), 
Windows (5.5mb/s) or ftp (8mb/s).
The network benchmark test (netio) that I ran gave me 11.4mb/s
The disk benchmark (hdbench 0.14.1) gave me 30mb/s read and 27mb/s write

With the samba test I used smbclient and smbmount from another linux box 
identical to the server. The volumen was and lvm/ext2 volumen.