[Samba] Perf enhancements in Samba4.1 related to SMB2.1 / SMB3.0 protocol

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:07:07PM +0530, Redwood Hyd wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> My doubts are for Samba4.1  performance related enhancements (SMB2.1 / SMB3.0).
> 
> My experimental samba server hardware  is running 4.1 version. Want to
> improve robocopy WRITE  throughput from a two samba client machines
> (win7 or win8 or server2012  x86 servers).
> 
> Someone please advice me how can I use SMB2.1 or SMB3.0 capabilities
> to improve WRITE throughput.  I tried samba4.1  earlier but not seeing
> any WRITE MBps  going up  (compared with samba 3.6.8 on same
> hardware).
> 
> To enable SMB2.1 or SMB3.0  perf. enhancements  please suggest if
> 1) any thing(s) need to be added in smb.conf or
> 2) need to compile samba4.1 with some special options or
> 3) samba client systems need some tuning
> 4) or any other pointers

There's registry settings, hinted at in

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625695%28v=WS.10%29.aspx

Volker

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