[Samba] Odd transfer speed issue

Stuart Gall stuart at otenet.gr
Sat Jan 26 11:04:21 GMT 2008


On 22 Jan 2008, at 20:43, Stuart Gall wrote:

> Hi Will,
> Alright ALTHOUGH this makes no sense at all
> do you have
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
>
> I read that someone fixed this issue by swapping out a RTL8111 card.
> I have this card AND I have this problem. It is only affecting  
> samba access from windows, http from windows is fine
>
> google "samba RTL8111" to get a feel for it :-))
>
> I am going to swap the NIC on Thursday I will report back.

Changing the NIC solved this problem.
I tried bulding the realtek driver from their site, but I could not  
convince the OS to use it. at €20 for a new NIC it just wasn't worth  
spending any more time on it.

>
> Can anyone imagine what could possibly be wrong with a NIC or its  
> driver so as to ONLY affect samba to windows ??!!!
>
> Stuart.
>
> On 18 Jan 2008, at 20:46, Will Payne wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 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 :(
>>
>> The odd thing is that if I then flood-ping from the server (in  
>> this case, I pinged my dsl router), the transfer completes in  
>> about 10 seconds. Hitting F5 repeatedly when browsing a share on  
>> the server also causes an increase of speed. I seem to get *more*  
>> throughput when there's a higher load.. Watching a video off a  
>> samba share is quite choppy and keeps stopping but leaving the  
>> ping running seems to fix it.
>>
>> Any ideas? My google powers fail me..
>>
>> W
>>
>>
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