[Samba] Performance Issues with GBit LAN

[Holger Krull]

Steffen Timmermann schrieb:

> I have 2 PC's connected with 1GBit NIC's. 

>When I transfer a file from my File-Server
>(Redhat9.0, 256 SD-RAM, 300MHz PII, RTL8169 NIC,
What Chipset? Maybe Intel BX? The at this time common Harddisk Interface 
  can't read faster than about 9MB per second.
If you use a separate PCI Card as Harddisk Interface enable PCI Buffers 
in Bios.

> 2x Western Digital WD200JB RAID 0) 
> to my Windows-PC(AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 
>1024 MB DDR-RAM, WINXP PRO, RTL8169 NIC,
> 2x Western Digital WD080JB RAID 0) with Samba,

> i get Speeds around 8-9MB/sec. 
to be expected