[Samba] Speeding up Samba

[Stefan Smietanowski]

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Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> I have a 3.2 GHz P4 Win XP Pro connected to a Fedora Core 4 server
> running on a 2 GHz Celeron.  I get about 350 MB/s FTP
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> transfer over a Gigabit Ethernet connection.
> 
> Samba is very much slower between the same computers.
> Can Samba be sped up to where it approaches the
> FTP performance?

Start by asking your FTP software not to lie to you.

1 Gb/s = 125000000B/s = 122070KiB/s = 119MiB/s.

That's the theoretical maximum of a Gigabit Ethernet connection.

If you're seeing more (and your program isn't lying) then you're
using something like a 10Gb/s link and not a 1Gb/s link.

// Stefan
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