Slow performance Samba

[Alan Mckinnon]

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 06:05 +0200, Miravlix ArcDraco wrote:
> Getting files from an Ubuntu server with NFS is 10 MB/s, now getting
> files from the Windows XP Pro server with SMB is half that after doing
> the reconmended WXP registery tweaks.
> 
> I really want to know where the other half of my bandwith is when using
> WXP SMB compared to Linux NFS.


In my experience that's pretty much par for the course. It's not SMB
that's slow, it's that NFS is so fast - data on NFS is designed to be
instantly there and always available. If you get a full 10M on NFS you
are probably running it over udp which has almost no overhead compared
to tcp.

Bottom line is, I reckon 5M is about as good as you will get from smb.
Butg I could be wrong and if so, I'd also like to know how to improve
it :-)

alan