[Samba] Poor performance when copying large files from a Samba server to a PC

[Peter Lappo]

Hi,
Does anyone else get poor performance when copying large files from a 
Samba server to a PC in a Windows XP / Samba Linux environment?

Its faster copying from the PC to Samba by a factor of 12.

I'll probably give up soon and buy a network attached storage device to 
save myself hours of messing around.

Peter

Peter Lappo wrote:,
> I get long pauses if I just drag and drop any large file using windows 
> explorer from the server to the client. So its not confined to using a 
> mp3 player.
>
> The mp3 player works fine when using a local file or when streaming 
> from another windows xp machine. See stats below.
>
> Sometimes there is a long pause before anything appears to happen.
>
> Here are some interesting transfer times on a 30MB file.
> Transfer times and network peaks according to Windows Task Manager are 
> shown.
>
> When using Windows Explorer to drag and drop files (ie at the pc screen)
> PC -> Samba     5 sec          60% network peaks, no pauses
> Samba -> PC     1 minute     20% network peaks, significant pauses
>
> When using Fedora Nautilus to drag and drop files (ie sitting at the 
> server screen),
> PC -> Samba     15 sec        20% network peaks, no pauses
> Samba -> PC     1 minute     5% network peaks, no pauses
>
> When using Windows Explorer to drag and drop files, (ie drag and drop 
> between local and remote pc)
> PC -> PC remote    5 sec     80% peak, no pauses
> PC remote -> PC    5 sec     80% peak, no pauses
>
> The smbstatus didn't change throughout.
>
> The problem seems to be sending data from Samba to the client.
>
> It would be interesting to try Samba to Samba transfers but I don't 
> have the equipment set-up to try this.
>