[Pc_Support] 3MB/s Samba Performance?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 01:26 -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> I can pull 10.5MB/s off the same machine via NFS, so I don't know what the 
> deal is.  Messes something awful with trying to burn DVDs off CIFS on Windows 
> 2000 SP4 though.

Again, SMB is _never_ going to give you NFS-level performance.

> After a couple minutes of copying a DVD ISO from the server running Samba, the 
> speed slows to about 400KB/s.  The server is mostly idle with no other large 
> transfers in progress.  I'm at a loss.

SMB is _horrendous_ when it comes to synchronizing the buffering between
a slower (than hard disk) block device and the network.


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