[Samba] Performance problem with file > 2Gb

[Jason Baker]

I had this same issue when I first setup samba on our network. I too am 
using a 3ware RAID controller. Do you have "write caching" enabled on 
your RAID controllers? If you do not, this will slow down performance 
quite noticeably.  I purchased the battery backup units for the cards 
and enabled write caching

*Jason Baker
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Sébastien CRAMATTE wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've setup an Samba 3 server on a Debian Etch 4
> The server has :
>
> - 8x 500Gb raid 5 via 3ware Raid Controller
> - Filesystem is Ext3 over Lvm2  (I know that be better an Xfs FS instead
> ... now I can't change it easily )
> - Xeon dual core 2
> - 2Gb of RAM
> - connected to a gigabit switch using 2 bonded NIC
>
> When I copy big files (> 2Gb MPEG files)  from Windows clients  the copy
> do a pause on the end ...
> If at the same time I open another video from another client the movie
> playback start to skip frame and become very very slow ...
>
> Any Ideas ?
>
>