[Samba] suggestions for a "fast" fileserver - 1G / 10G - focus on smb.conf/samba

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Mar 25 09:24:26 MDT 2014


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 08:14:06AM +0100, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for all the feedback and topics.
> 
> May be I can/should draw a better picture of my settings and question.
> 
> We "still" use samba 3.6.9-167 from Red Hat with an openldap backend.
> 
> I tried from an older posting somewhere:
> 
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536
> 
> But there was no noticeable impact.

socket options changes are voodoo bullshit on
modern kernels. They come from a time long long
ago in a galaxy far away... Modern kernels do a
much better job of tuning themselves. Please don't
mess with them in smb.conf :-(.


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