[Samba] Tuning the performance of Samba over LAN network to improve I/O performance

[Helmut Hullen]

Hallo, Jeremy,

Du meintest am 05.08.09:

>> For the numbers I am getting....Writing averages around 23Mbytes/sec
>> and Reading averages around 33Mbytes/sec. I am aiming for 30 plus
>> for writing and around 40 for reading. Both seem to be reasonable.

> True, but first use hdparm to see what your
> raw disk numbers should be. Also you first
> posted Mbits/sec, not Mbytes, which were *very* low
> numbers :-).

And if he uses PCI network cards then there's a PCI bus limit to about  
33 MByte/s. Even with Gigabit cards.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut