[Samba] Odd transfer speed issue

[Ryan Novosielski]

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There was talk about changes to the TCP window and RSSIZE etc. a month
or two ago. Could any of this be related?

Stuart Gall wrote:
> Hi Will,
> Did you get anywhere with this ?
> 
> I have this exact same problem on one system Debian 4.0r2
> I can download with http super fast.
> Access from linux using mount.cifs is fast. Access from OSX is fast.
> ONLY access from windows is slow
> I have an older samba box on the same network it is fine.
> I built 3.0.28 from source with async io , still no good.
> Made hundreds of tweaks the smb.conf nothing I do makes any differance.
> 
> Wierder . . . I set up another file-server today same NIC same
> motherboard same version of debian - no problems.
> 
> I am going to go mad
> 
> 
> On 18 Jan 2008, at 21:39, Will Payne wrote:
> 
>>>> I'm seeing slow transfers to/from my samba server. I just tried to
>>>> copy a
>>>> 270MB file from a samba share to an XP machine. At first, the estimated
>>>> time displayed as 141 minutes :(
>>
>> -snip-
>>
>>> Microsoft's estimates are known to be completely off a lot of times.
>>> If you
>>> do not make any load on the server how long does the transfer take?
>>
>> I don't know how long it'd *actually* take (life's too short to let it
>> complete) but it's definately at least several minutes when it should
>> just be a matter of seconds..
>>
>> HTTP downloads from the machine, scp-ing files to/from, etc are fine..
>> it's just samba that seems to have this issue..
>>
>> Perplexed,
>> Will
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