[Samba] Slow sequential write on Samba drive

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:01:32AM -0700, Don wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am experiencing very slow writes over samba.  We have a modest linux 
> network (about 6 servers) and a medium sized office (20-30 windows 
> boxes).  We have had a single linux file server that has done us yeoman 
> service for several years.  It is running RH 7.3.  I am trying to set up 
> the next generation file server with a huge (to me anyway) 2TB Promise 
> VTrak 12110 RAID disk.  I've installed Fedora Core 3 and got the file 
> server up and running and it works fine... except it seemed slower than 
> the older system.
> 
> So, I downloaded "Performance Test" from www.passmark.com that tests 
> things like hard drive speeds under Windows.  What the test told me was:

Thanks for that - I'll download and play with this test and see if I
can reproduce the problem.

Thanks,

Jeremy.