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

[Harry Jede]

On 11:24:10 wrote mourik jan heupink - merit:
> Hi list,
> 
> First morning here on samba4 AD, and no complaints yet :-)
> 
> > I hadn'd have  that option enabled yet and gave it a try:
> > 
> > max protocol = SMB2 -> close to 25% more performance :) Great.
> > 
> > In the bets test run writing 300 MB Files from an OS X Client 10.9
> > to a smb share is now average of 60 MB/s. (before best was around
> > 45 MB/s)
> 
> But  taken from
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html:
> 
> Normally this option should not be set as the automatic negotiation
> phase in the SMB protocol takes care of choosing the appropriate
> protocol.
> 
> Default: client max protocol = SMB3
> 
> So this does not rhyme with your observed performance increase after
> "max protocol = SMB2", does it..?
Yes, it does.
Because you are referencing the man page on www.samba.org. One must 
always use the localy installed man page which reflects the version one 
have installed. The parameter "client max protocol" has changed over 
time, like a lot of other params.

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Harry Jede