[Samba] slow with one transfer, fast with multiple

[Aaron Kincer]

I run Samba on Ubuntu in an Active Directory environment and don't (any 
longer) see strange slowness. Can you sanitize and post your smb.conf 
for starters?

David Olsson wrote:
> Running samba with Ubuntu, default configuration, one share, samba running as daemons rather from inetd.
>
> Copying one file between the share and another machine on the LAN is very slow.  Adding another copy and both transfers proceed very quickly.
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> The client machines are Macs with recent OSX, and a Windows laptop.  Same behavior.  If the second transfer is initiated on a different client, both transfers still speed up, dramatically.
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> Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.
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