[Samba] Performance Issues

[Simon Aridis-Lang]

Hi,

 

I've noticed this type of issue has been raised a few times, but I
haven't been able to find a solution yet.  

 

I'm having transfer performance issues from various clients to my new
file server :

 

Server config is :

Athlon 3200+ on Nforce 2

Yukon Gb NIC

Gentoo with 2.6.9

samba 3.0.7-r1 ebuild

3Ware Escalade 9500S-12 x 2

Clients are XP SP2,2K3 on similar hardware and G5s with OS X 10.3, all
with Gb NICs on Cat6, and all of which are transferring like dogs ;(

 

smbmount from server to 2003Server transfers ok, but one directory with
~2500 files appears as empty!  Also, my old G4 w/Os X 10.2 is
transferring ok also... go figure.

 

# hdapram -t /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:

 Timing buffered disk reads:  268 MB in  3.01 seconds =  88.96 MB/sec

 

During transfer smdb reports only 0.7  %cpu or thereabouts.  Various
changes to the socket options have not yielded any results. Winbind is
authenticating ok and I can't see anything in any of the logs which
would indicate a catastrophic problem.

 

smb.conf :

 

[global]

        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

        netbios name = VAULT

        workgroup = DOMAIN

        realm = DOMAIN.LOCAL

        security = ADS

        password server = dc.domain.local

        wins server = dc.domain.local

        dns proxy = no

        wins proxy = no

        encrypt passwords = yes

        idmap uid = 10000-20000

        winbind enum users = yes

        winbind gid = 10000-20000

        winbind enum groups = yes

        winbind separator = +

        os level = 20

        preferred master = no

        log level = 1

        max log size = 50

        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

 

[vault]

        comment = Big Thing

        writeable = yes

        path = /mnt/vault

        force user = vaultuser

        valid users = DOMAIN+"Power Users"

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Sincerely,

 

Simon