[Samba] Samba fileserver limited to 50 MB/s on gbit

[John Drescher]

On 11/21/06, Leo B. <spam-goes-to-dev-null at gmx.net> wrote:
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Drescher
> > On 11/20/06, Nguyen Kim Huy <huy at vn.nec-tokin.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > It seems bottleneck of harddisk
> > >
> > > That was my first reaction as it is difficult to sustain 50MB/s file
> > system transfers (unless the files are large and a raid is
> > used) but he said the file was cached and also if it was
> > waiting for the disk it would have shown up as wa time in top.
>
> Exactly. I read the file several times on the server until it was cached.
> Notice also that the local transferrate is like 500 MB/s then.
>
> Are you using ldap? Is the file at least 1 MB?

John