[Samba] Trying to find a bottleneck
Gerald Drouillard
gerrylist at drouillard.ca
Wed Nov 24 16:36:46 GMT 2004
Jeff Morrow wrote:
> I'm trying to get my network setup as streamlined as possible. I ran a
> brain-dead-simple speed test of Samba and I'm very confused by the
> results. Here's my setup:
>
> Fast new WinXP Pro machine
> NetGear GA311 gigabit ethernet
> ^
> | dedicated gigabit ethernet line (no switch)
> v
> RTL8169 gigabit ethernet
> Relatively fast new Debian Linux machine
>
> I set up ramdisks on both machines to ensure that the hard drives were
> not the bottleneck. I then put a roughly 7 MB file on the linux ramdisk
> and mounted that disk on my windows box via Samba. I then wrote a .bat
> script on the windows side that copies the file from the linux ramdisk
> to the windows ramdisk over and over again.
>
> On the windows side, the network utilization monitor says that network
> load stays around 25-30%. It occasionally gets as high as 40%. CPU
> usage on the windows side is negligible. On the linux side, top reports
> that smbd is taking about 30% CPU.
>
> I'm confused by the fact that neither network utilization nor CPU usage
> on either computer is getting anywhere near 100%. I'm wondering if
> there are any config settings I can tweak to get Samba to fill my
> gigabit line more fully.
>
> Thanks alot.
>
> Jeff Morrow
Have you tried in your smb.conf:
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=65536 SO_RCVBUF=65536 IPTOS_LOWDELAY
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Regards
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Gerald Drouillard
Technology Architect
Drouillard & Associates, Inc.
http://www.Drouillard.ca
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