[Samba] Is Samba Slow?

[Anders Widman]

Still, what/where is the overhead that gives more than 50% loss in bandwidth?


//Anders



> 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.