[Samba] Transfer rates faster than 23MBps?
Mark Smith
msmith at customflix.com
Thu Sep 21 17:27:11 GMT 2006
I wanted to follow up to my email to provide at least a partial answer
to my problem.
The stock RedHat AS4-U3 Samba config has SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF set to
8k. With this value, I can transfer a 1GB file in about 70-75 seconds,
about 14MBps. If I increase those buffers to their max value of 64k,
that same 1GB file transfers in 45-50 seconds, about 23MBps.
That is the _ONLY_ configuration value I've found that made any
difference in my setup. All the other tweaks I'd done, when removed,
seemed to make no difference at all. I was playing with oplocks,
buffers, max xmit sizes, you name it. But the socket option buffers was
the only thing that made a difference.
I'm still looking for more speed. I'll report if I find anything else
that helps.
In response to Jeremy's suggestion of using smbclient, I ran a test from
a Linux client using smbclient and it reported a transfer rate of
21MBps, about the same as a normal smbfs mount. I haven't tried porting
smbclient to Windows yet, and probably won't until we get more info on
what the server is doing.
Thanks everyone.
-Mark
Mark Smith wrote:
> We use SMB to transfer large files (between 1GB and 5GB) from RedHat AS4
> Content Storage servers to Windows clients with 6 DVD burners and
> robotic arms and other cool gadgets. The servers used to be Windows
> based, but we're migrating to RedHat for a host of reasons.
>
> Unfortunately, the RedHat Samba servers are about 2.5 times slower than
> the Windows servers. Windows will copy a 1GB file in about 30 seconds,
> where as it takes about 70 to 75 seconds to copy the same file from a
> RedHat Samba server.
>
> I've asked Dr. Google and gotten all kinds of suggestions, most of which
> have already been applied by RedHat to the stock Samba config. I've
> opened a ticket with RedHat. They pointed out a couple errors in my
> config, but fixing those didn't have any effect. Some tweaking,
> however, has gotten the transfer speed to about 50 seconds for that 1GB
> file.
>
> But I seem to have hit a brick wall; my fastest time ever was 44
> seconds, but typically it's around 50.
>
> I know it's not a problem with network or disk; if I use Apache and HTTP
> to transfer the same file from the same server, it transfers in about 15
> to 20 seconds. Unfortunately, HTTP doesn't meet our other requirements
> for random access to the file.
>
> Do you folks use Samba for large file transfers at all? Have you had
> any luck speeding it up past about 23MBps (the 44 second transfer
> speed)? Any help you may have would be fantastic. Thanks.
>
> -Mark
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