Fwd: [Samba] Weird Samba upload performance on Gigabit network

[John Drescher]

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From: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2006 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Weird Samba upload performance on Gigabit network
To: David Harrison <david.harrison at stress-free.co.nz>

I've updated the Suse box to the 2.6.18.2 kernel with no effect.
> I'm not in a position to run NFS tests on the machine but I'm
> guessing it is the network card (low-end Netgear with the r8169 driver).
>

We have several dozen of those cards in our department (we needed around 100
cards so we bought them in bulk) and we have never had that problem.

John


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John M. Drescher