[Samba] Access to shares too slow

Martin Mielke martin.mielke at casino.com
Fri Dec 28 19:07:01 GMT 2007


Jeff Ross wrote:
> Martin Mielke wrote:
>> Charles Marcus wrote:
>>> Martin Mielke, on 12/28/2007 12:11 PM, said the following:
>>>> we recently moved our offices to a bigger place. Therefore all our 
>>>> servers and network electronic had to be turned off... :)
>>>>
>>>> Well, I know it sounds odd but after the move Samba is much slower 
>>>> serving the shares and users have to wait ages for the information 
>>>> to be copied or moved across the network. In some cases, Windows 
>>>> desktops seem to freeze until the data is retrieved from the Samba 
>>>> server where the shares are hosted...
>>>>
>>>> Nothing has been changed nor modified. System and network 
>>>> configurations remain the same, smb.conf is the same on the server, 
>>>> we use the same IP range, gateways, etc etc.
>>>>
>>>> Any clues? Maybe I'm overseeing something really obvious... :-/
>>>
>>> First, I'd be looking at any changes that were made since last 
>>> reboot - many times I've been bit by some change that doesn't get 
>>> applied until a reboot.
>>>
>>> Other possibilities are a bad port on a switch (the one the server 
>>> is on, since its affecting everyone) or a mismatched duplex mode on 
>>> either the switch or server side of the network connection.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm...
>>
>> Both Samba server and switches are configured to use the same speed 
>> and duplex mode.
>>
>> Samba server:
>> ---
>> # ethtool eth0
>> Settings for eth0:
>>        Supported ports: [ TP ]
>>        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>>                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>>                                1000baseT/Full
>>        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>>        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>>                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>>                                1000baseT/Full
>>        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>>        Speed: 100Mb/s
>>        Duplex: Full
>>        Port: Twisted Pair
>>        PHYAD: 1
>>        Transceiver: internal
>>        Auto-negotiation: on
>>        Supports Wake-on: d
>>        Wake-on: d
>>        Link detected: yes
>>
>> ---
>>
>> The switch is set to 100-FDx (100baseT/Full Duplex), so everything 
>> matches...
>>
>> Still confused...
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>
> Any chance you've accidentally got a loop going between switches?  
> (i.e. two cables connecting two switches instead of one?)
>
> Jeff

Nope.

I also thought of that :-)


Cheers



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