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

[Nguyen Kim Huy]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:05:38 +0100
"Leo B." <spam-goes-to-dev-null at gmx.net> wrote:

> 
> > -----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.
> 
> Leo B.


But your client computer does not use cache?.
Your copy a file on samba server to client computer HDD, 
  so it may still have posibility of harddisk bottle neck at your client computer!


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