[Samba] Problems running samba in vmware

[Adam Zimmer]

I have now removed those socket options. I am running Linux 2.6.22.

However, the delays persist. Any other ideas? I thought it might be name 
resolution so I tried:
name resolve order = wins host bcast

But this hasn't helped either.

Adam Zimmer
President
Arius Software Corporation
(519) 885-9045 x122



Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 3/6/2008, Adam Zimmer (adam at ariussoftware.com) wrote:
>> I have tried various socket options including SO_RCVBUF=8192, 
>> SO_SNDBUF=8192, IPTOS_LOWDELAY, TCP_NODELAY, SO_KEEPALIVE. At the 
>> moment I have set SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF to be equal to 1400 as I 
>> noticed the MTU of the network card was 1500 which seems to but down 
>> on the broken pipes. 
>
> I'm not saying this is cauing  your problem, but you shouldn't be 
> setting these at all, as long as you have a modern kernel (2.6 series)...
>
> These haven't been needed for a long time.
>