[Samba] Samba ignoring socket options?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:20:22PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:31:50PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
> >>BTW, I get 43 MB/s with a single 12 MB file on GbE without any socket
> >>options; linux -> linux.
> >
> >Ok, that's the same as the Windows systems right ? Should be
> >higher than that. Ok, at least we've removed the black box
> >from the system - everything can be examined in open source
> >code now. You should be able to get 100MB/sec (or close to
> >it) I think.
> 
> *sound of stick hitting head*
> 
> My destination filesystem was an NFS-mounted volume. Copying instead to a 
> local software RAID-1 volume, I get 63 MB/sec, which I think is quite 
> reasonable. The systems were quite busy at the time. Samba 3.0.24 on 
> CentOS 4.6/x86_64.

Ah, twice over the network. Always good for performance :-).

Glad to be able to help.

Jeremy.