[Samba] Poor linux client performance (comparing to XP)

[robert at ruegner.org]

Denis Vlasenko schrieb:

>On Monday 04 October 2004 12:49, bostjan.skufca at domenca.com wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I haven't found anything useful googling around so I decided to ask here.
>>
>>I have a Linux server running Samba on 100Mbit/s ethernet. If I connect to
>>it using WinXP, mount some share and download files from it it reaches
>>about 9MB/s transfer rate. Using FTP gives even higher transfer rates.
>>
>>BUT
>>when I use linux to connect to (linux!) server, mount shares and download
>>files then transfer speed reaches only about 3-4 MB/s. Using smbclient is a
>>bit faster (0.5-1MB but not always). Using other linux workstations (faster
>>machine) i could only boost transfer rate to 5.0-5.5MB/s.
>>
>>Server and workstation machines are using 2.4.27 and samba 2.2.12
>>(slackware distro).
>>
>>Is anyone familiar with this issue?
>>    
>>
>
>You may want to dig more facts:
>
>* is server CPU 100% loaded or not? Client CPU?
>* does bandwidth increase if you download several large files
>  from same share in parallel?
>
>You may use attached program to collect various statistics.
>I compiled it with dietlibc.
>--
>vda
>  
>
hi have you killed the so called  web service on the xp client, this is 
highly recommended
for better performance, read the samba faqs about this
regards