[Samba] Slow sequential write on Samba drive

[Don]

Jeremy, do you have any advice for me?   I  saw on an earlier post that 
you were at LinuxWorld so maybe you don't have time right at the moment 
to look at this problem...

I saw a recent posting about "smbtorture.c" but couldn't find it on the 
ftp site.  Does anyone have suggestions for a SMB testing/benchmarking 
program, especially one that can run under both windows and linux?

Thanks,
Don

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:01:32AM -0700, Don wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>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:
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>Thanks for that - I'll download and play with this test and see if I
>can reproduce the problem.
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