[SAMBA] config/performance problem on solaris 8

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:39:14PM -0600, Justin Richards wrote:
> using iostat and doing some basic file testing such as:
> time dd if=/dev/zero of=./tst bs=8192 count=8192
> time dd if=./tst of=/dev/null bs=8192 count=8192
> 
> my write speed was about 13.5 meg a sec, and read was 13 meg a sec.
> 
> I didn't explain my disk set up before, let me do that briefly.
> 
> I have a SUN 1010 fiber disk array, with 16 18gig drives and 10 9gig drives.
> The file systems I am doing my tests on are a stripe of 4 18gig drives.  I
> also did some tests with a SUN 711 attached to the same system which has a
> 36 gig drive in it, with that I get right under 20 meg/sec read and right
> (711 is attached with fast-wide scsi)
> 
> I'm going to recompile 2.2.7 and see if I get any different results..

Yes, you might find 2.2.7 is better - it does a much better
job of pretending to be a W2K server.

The clients don't always write in nice 8k chuncks, which is why
it isn't as good as the raw numbers would seem.

Jeremy.