[Samba] Is Samba Slow?

[Pablo Alcaraz]

I ran it:

#] mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTX-FD, link ok
eth1: no link

eth1 is ok because I do not use it.
By the way, a fool question: Could I use eth1 and eth0, with the *same* 
samba server?


Wade Winright wrote:

>RH 7.2 with certain 3com cards seem to have to be modified, or have the
>correct driver installed and then hard coded to 100full. I would run a
>"mii-tool" as root to see what your card is running at.
>Just a suggestion...
>Wade
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pablo Alcaraz [mailto:pabloa at mbasystems.com.ar] 
>Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:11 AM
>To: samba at lists.samba.org; Pablo Alcaraz
>Subject: [Samba] Is Samba Slow?
>Importance: High
>
>I installed samba 2.2 cvs version in a file server. The configuration is:
>- AMD k7 1.2Ghz
>- Asus kt133
>- 3 IBM 7200 IDE HD 80 gb with LVM and Ext2/3 volumenes
>- 1gb RAM
>- Redhat 7.2 + kernel 2.4.16 + acl patch
>- 2 Ethernet Card 10/100 3com (but I only use one. Can I use the 2 
>cards? How?)
>
>
>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.
>
>I know that samba always is compared with ftp transfers so Why do I get 
>only 4.5mb/s if ftp give me 8mb/s?
>The current speed (4.5mb) is not acceptable for us because Novell gave 
>us better perfomance with less hardware (pentium II 266mhz).
>
>I have a lot of pressure to upgrade the novell server to the new 
>hardware (I wish to replace 2 W2k file servers and 1 Novell server with 
>this linux box :-)
>
>If I can not speed up samba at least to 6mb/s (Novell time) I'll have to 
>return to the novell server. And I don't want to do this :-((
>
>Please help!
>
>I send my smb.conf file.
>If you need more information please tell me!
>
>Pablo
>
>
>[global]
>    workgroup = MBA
>    netbios name = ASGARD
>    server string = Samba Server
>    security = DOMAIN
>    encrypt passwords = Yes
>    password server = ntmba
>    log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>    log level = 0
>    max log size = 2000
>    # # socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>    # socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=16384 SO_SNDBUF=16384
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=16384 
>SO_SNDBUF=16384
>    # socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=32768 SO_SNDBUF=32768
>    dns proxy = No
>    wins server = 192.168.1.70
>    name resolve order = wins host bcast lmhosts
>    invalid users = root bin daemon adm sync \
>                    shutdown halt mail news uucp operator gopher
>    printer admin = @mba_administradores
>    show add printer wizard = No
>    code page directory = /etc/codepages
>    time server = Yes
>    deadtime = 30
>    read size = 32768
>
>[mail]
>    available = No
>
>[homes]
>    comment = Directorio Personal
>    read only = No
>    browseable = Yes   
>
>[printers]
>    comment = Todas las Impresoras
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    printable = Yes
>    printer admin = @mba_administradores
>    browseable = No
>    # available = No
>
>[print$]
>    path = /usr/local/samba/printers/
>    guest ok = No
>    browseable = Yes
>    read only = Yes
>    admin users = @mba_administradores
>    write list = @mba_administradores
>
>[pro_sfm]
>    comment = \\odin\sfm
>    path = /mnt/mba/produ/produ
>    valid users = @mba_produ_sfm @mba_sana @mba_desa @mba_admi 
>@mba_administradores
>    # oplocks = No
>    veto oplock files = /*.nfo/*.NFO/*.dbf/*.DBF/*.cdx/*.CDX/*.fpt/*.FPT
>    read only = No
>    create mask = 0666
>    directory mask = 0777
>    force group = mba_public
>    # write cache size = 1048576
>
>    # available = No
>    # guest account = mba_produ_sfm
>    # guest ok = Yes
>    # guest only = Yes
>
>    posix locking = No
>    wide links = No
>
>
>
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