[Samba] Performance of samba in linux vs windows

[Tim Harvey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Krull [mailto:holger.krull at gmx.de]
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:56 PM
> To: Tim Harvey
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Performance of samba in linux vs windows
> 
> 
> > For windows I'm low-tech: stopwatch plus drag-n-drop of a large file
> (any
> > recommendations on a 'simple' windows program that will tell you how
> long it
> > took to copy a file, or even calc the BW for you?)
> 
> timethis from the windows resource kit

Perfect... exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks!

> 
> 
> >   - why would I be getting half the performance via nfs vs smb?  Is
> there a
> > lot more overhead with smb vs nfs?
> 
> Give your smb.conf for comparison

I didn't include it because it didn't change across my comparisons, but here
it is:

--/etc/samba/smb.conf--
#Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = MSHOME
        netbios name = NAS3
        security = SHARE
        server string = Samba Server
        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 50
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
        encrypt passwords = yes

[data]
        comment = RAID5 Share
        browseable = yes
        path = /data
        force user = nobody
        force group = nobody
        read only = No
        guest ok = Yes
--

I haven't tried playing with the socket_options.  Tweaking those would
perhaps change my performance of the smb tests, however it still wouldn't
explain why smb over linux is much slower than smb over windows.

Tim