[Samba] Samba - Performance Issues

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:50:49PM -0500, Vinay Kudithipudi wrote:
> Jay - I tried the test without any options (i.e. all default) and still get
> the same results
> 
> Javid - I am using copy
> 
> Jeremy - All clients are Win2k or WinXP.
> 
> I would very much like to blame the hardware for the problem, but since NFS
> yields better performance I am thinking SAMBA may be the cause here. 

I'm not saying it isn't. Are you using PC-NFS between the same clients
and the Samba server to compare ?

Win2K and WinXP clients should be using the large read/write calls, so
larger TCP buffers should be better for them. Do you have any network
traces to look at ?

Jeremy.