[Samba] much slower backups using smbtar

Zoltan Sutto rhnuser at rutinsoft.hu
Tue Mar 2 19:00:13 GMT 2004


I have removed SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 settings from socket_options.
It helped. I hope it's not having any side effect.
 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <monitor at oops.co.at>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] much slower backups using smbtar
> 
> 
> > Hello, Sutto,
> >
> > Freitag, 06. Februar 2004, 21:51 you wrote:
> >
> > SZ> There is a backup script running from cron which create daily
> incremental
> > SZ> and (full on friday)
> > SZ> backups from samba shares (>6GB/share) using smbtar.
> >
> > SZ> Output of backup script on PII config:
> > SZ>     538112 ( 3981.1 kb/s)
> >
> > SZ> Output of backup script on P4 config:
> > SZ>      37888 (  146.2 kb/s)
> >
> > SZ> Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > What's the script doing?
> >
> > As you not only upgraded Samba, but the whole OS, I would look for
> > issues like network-config, duplexing and such first.
> >
> > How fast is your standard copy-to-samba-share for instance?
> >
> > --
> >
> > It is nice to tell us about your shiny new hardware, but this is
> > obviously not your bottleneck.
> >
> > Maybe it is just your new NIC set to halfduplex-10mbit ---- ;)
> >
> > In short words, this might not be a Samba-topic at all.
> >
> > Look for basic network-config first.
> >
> > -- 
> > best regards,
> > Stefan G. Weichinger
> > mailto:monitor at oops.co.at
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 


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