[SMS]

Nikitos · Junior Member Joined: 15 Nov 2008 Posts: 4

Hello people!
I have a strange trouble with samba. On my Gb Network, i get only 55mbs of real speed between my SMS and a Windows XP box. On the same hardware but only under Windows Server i get about 80-95mbs.
Maybe i must config something manualy?

gerasimos_h · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject:

Hi...

What do you use to measure the speed?
I would recommend robocopy.
You can try to add under [global]

Nikitos · Junior Member Joined: 15 Nov 2008 Posts: 4

Thanks for the fast Answer! I use Total Commander or TerraCopy. Both programms are good and show same speed. At same time i look to the Network status of Windows, it show max 15% of usage.

The commands don´t changed anything. Maybe i must config something on the network?

Nikitos · Junior Member Joined: 15 Nov 2008 Posts: 4

after many hours of research, i founded the speedleck. It was the Networkcard.
You can mark the topic as solved.

gerasimos_h · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:07 am Post subject:

Well that's an issue indeed, but I thought you said "on the same hardware under windows".
I came across this many times over SMB
Low cost TP link RT8169 I get 22MB/s
Marvell 88E8001 speeds up to 55MB/s
And comparing SMS with a Dual G5 MacOSX 10.5.4 server I get 32MB/s

Technically low cost ethernet adapters supports 1000Mbps Half dublex mode only.

Of course other issues that may cause low traffic are slow HDD try
hdparm -Tt /dev/yourdisk] on your server.
Low CPU and Low RAM

I'm glad you solved it thought
gerasimos_h

Nikitos · Junior Member Joined: 15 Nov 2008 Posts: 4

i think Windows Server optimize the network connection or work with better/newer drivers.

gerasimos_h · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

I had never had that issue, but I'm not prohibit about it.
You can check and compare nfs speed over smb to check if it is a nic driver problem.

gerasimos_h