[Samba] Why windows client is four times slower than linux client ?

[jie wang]

besides the samba server is linux.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 3:27 AM jie wang <yjxxtd12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks the reply, I'm not copying the files to the local storage of the
> client. There are 3 computers, samba server, windows client and linux
> client, and copy files from windows/linux client to samba server's storage.
> The network latency is almost same between windows client -> samba server
> and linux client -> samba server.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 3:20 AM Robert Marcano via samba <
> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On 6/15/22 3:11 PM, jie wang via samba wrote:
>> > Hi, all.
>> >
>> > I deploy a samba server, and copy the hadoop source code to the mount
>> > point. When I use windows client, it cost 8 minutes, and there are
>> about 1
>> > million packets. But when I use linux client, it cost 2 minutes, and
>> there
>> > are only 0.2 million packets. So it seems windows client is four times
>> > slower than linux client. Windows and linux clients both use samba
>> 3.1.1,
>> > and samba server use master code. Can anyone help explain the reason ?
>> > Thanks a lot.
>>
>>
>> Are you copying the files to the local storage of the client? If true
>> maybe you should test only reading the files and not storing them
>> locally after clearing any kine of cache. Windows filesystem layers are
>> know to be slow when working with many small files, and source code tree
>> tend to be like that.
>>
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