[Samba] SMB slow by design?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:47:59AM -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote:
> 
> I don't know why, but I just tried this, removind the SNDBUF AND RCVBUF,
> and the file share does seem snappier.  I had never messed with these
> options, I just found several places that said setting these to 8192
> gave a performance increase, so I had always used them.  Not any more.

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