[Samba] Tunning samba for better read performance

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:49:06PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running samba server on board and client is windows 7.
> 
> I did below steps for performance tests.
> + format /dev/sda1 with ext4
> + mount the drive in server as mentioned in [media] path of /etc/samba/smb.conf
> + created a root password
>     $ smbpasswd -a root
> + 1Gb ethernet interface from board.
> + map the driver in windows
> + did a 4gb robocopy
> + read got 13MBps and write got 105MBps
> 
> Could any one suggest me any inputs why read got too slow, do I need to look
> at any config options in /etc/samba/smb.conf

Can you post your smb.conf?

Thanks,

Volker

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