[Samba] 3.6.8 and 4.1.3 throughput compassion

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 01:10:36PM +0530, sp bglr wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My doubts are for Samba4.1 performance related enhancements.Following is
> the comparison result samba 3.6.8 + samba4.1.3.
> 
> Following number is robocopy 2 flow result.
> 
> 3.6.8
> Read/Write (speed MB/sec) :  210/*202*
> 
> 4.1
> Read/Write: (speed MB/sec) : 220/*192*
> 
> In case of read am getting better throughput for samba 4.1 but write always
> less.
> 
> How can i improve the write throughput?

We need to find out the reason why it's slower, and that
depends on the exact workload. One big file? Many small
files? That would make a large difference for example. Also,
strace -ttT and simultaneous network traces would help a
lot.

Volker

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