[Samba] Slow Transfer Speeds (I have read the HOWTO)

[Gerald Drouillard]

Richard Collyer wrote:
> Richard Collyer wrote:
>>>> I've been having a few troubles with samba 3. I can only get 4MB/sec 
>>>> writing to the FreeBSD server that it
>>>> is running on. As its on a 100Mbit network
>>>> I was expecting at least 6-7MB/sec.
>>> ...
>>>>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>>>
>>> Tule of thumb for socket options:  Don't set this unless
>>> you can explain why you need them.
> 
> Just realized I replied to the person and no the list :( Try again
> 
> Anyhoo, I've tried it with socket options commented out, TCP_NODELAY 
> only and with the SO options in there and I see no difference in the 
> amount of data that is being sent.
> 
> I've put this machine and the server on its own switch to factor out the 
> router and done some more testing. Read speeds are 6MB/sec and write 
> only half of that at 3MB/sec. TO be fair the read speeds are ok as are 
> the dir listing speeds its just the write performance that I am having 
> problems with.
> 
> Does anyone have any more suggestions.
> 
> Cheers
> Richard
> 
Try this:
     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=65536 SO_RCVBUF=65536 
IPTOS_LOWDELAY

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