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

Holger Krull holger.krull at gmx.de
Wed Oct 6 09:45:30 GMT 2004


> I heard (read) about the
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
> line that resolves some problems.

No, TCP_NODELAY is the standard setting for quite a while and setting 
the buffers to 8K makes them smaller on most systems. And doesn't help.

smbfs is slow. And there is nothing someone can do about it. At least to 
my knowledge.



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