[NBLUG/talk] Samba running slow...

Ross Thomas spamb8r at netscape.net
Tue Jul 15 11:38:00 PDT 2003


Scott Doty wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:39:22AM -0700, Coy Thorp wrote:
>> What it sounds like to me, first flush, is a speed/duplex mismatch.  That
>> means the communication between the network device and the linux box is not
>> matched, or the network device and the pc is not matched.  If one side is
>> 100M, full duplex, then the other side must be that as well.  If one side is
>> set to auto-detect the settings, then the other side should be set to
>> auto-detect as well.
> 
> Bingo.  That is my assessment.

Out of interest, how would this explain the directional asymmetry?
Sure, the pipes may be mismatched, but it should still be slow in
both directions.  Right?  The only thing that may help a little is
buffering in the switch, if any.  But this will still only be an
'initial' speed-up until the buffer fills.

I'm really interested to know how he is testing the throughput.

Ross.




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