[Samba] 300mbit/s smbclient vs. 500mbit/s iperf

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 04:51:17PM +0200, Werner Durgarten wrote:
> my samba server has a gigabit connection and in order to
> check if the performance is on par i ran two simple Tests:
> 
> 1) sending data from samba server to client with iperf
> (tcp mode, standard parameters): The achievable datarate
> is constantly about 500mbit/s
> 
> 2) Downloading files with smbclient, ramdisk to ramdisk:
> The achievable  datarate is constantly about 300mbit/s

What smbclient is that?

Volker