[Samba] Re: Horrible write performance from XP to Samba

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:55:00PM +0200, Sebastian Held wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2006 14:56 schrieb Peter Daum:
> > maybe some people would be adventurous enough to just try it out:
> 
> My results (only 1 measurement taken)
> WinXP64 -> Samba-3.0.23b/SuSE-Linux-9.2:    2:08 min => 8192 kiB/s   (smbd 
> @18% CPU)
> other direction: 2:21 min => 7437 kiB/s (smbd @10% CPU)
> 
> Samba -> Win2k:   4:52 min => 3591 kiB/s (smbd @5% CPU)
> Win2k -> Samba:   2:22 min => 7384 kiB/s (smbd @15% CPU)
> 
> The windows machines are not the same.
> 
> compare to nfs performance:
> Samba machine -> other nfs machine:   1:58 min => 8886 kiB/s
> other direction: 1:55 min => 9118 kiB/s

Unless the "other nfs machine" is also windows this is
an apples to oranges comparison. If you want an apples 
to apples comparison compare using cifsfs on the linux
client as your cifs client, not windows.

Jeremy.