[Samba] Performance problem with file > 2Gb

Alessandro Ferrari alexferro at tiscali.it
Tue Jul 17 13:20:32 GMT 2007


I am sorry Simo but I work on this problem a lot of time and when I read 
this:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563

I stop my work!!

I run smbclient to copy from PC-Win some big files (more than 4Gb) but 
without success... :-(

Can you write me a solution?

Thanks.... Alessandro

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "simo" <idra at samba.org>
To: "Alessandro Ferrari" <alexferro at tiscali.it>
Cc: "Sébastien CRAMATTE" <s.cramatte at wanadoo.fr>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Performance problem with file > 2Gb


> Only if you don't compile with large files support, something we support
> since long.
>
> Simo.
>
> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:11 +0200, Alessandro Ferrari wrote:
>> There are some problems to transfer big file over 2Gb, It is a filesize
>> limitation of samba.
>>
>> Ale
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Sébastien CRAMATTE" <s.cramatte at wanadoo.fr>
>> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
>> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:13 PM
>> Subject: [Samba] Performance problem with file > 2Gb
>>
>>
>> > 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 ?
>> >
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> Simo Sorce
> Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer
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