[Samba] Re: SMB slow by design?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:47:44PM -0600, ryan punt wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:35:32PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 
> > Ah I found it. This is smb.conf: http://pastebin.ca/330452
> > Removing SO_SNDBUF=8192 gives
> > 
> > $ smbget smb://localhost/rt/blob.iso
> > [blob.iso] 41.08Mb of 171.06Mb (24.01%) at 41.08Mb/s ETA: 00:00:03
> > 
> > perfect performance again. Wonder how that got in there *grumble*
> 
> Yep, on modern kernels I don't think setting SNDBUF or RCVBUF is
> a good idea....
> 
> Jeremy.
> 
> --
> 
> Jeremy - why is this?

(IMHO) Modern kernels do a better job of setting these params
than second guessing them (in most cases).

Jeremy.