[NBLUG/talk] Samba running slow...

[Todd Cary]

Yup!  That setting seems correct.  I think I have a NIC config problem 
or a bad NIC [see my posting to Coy].

Here is the setting:

# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
# See speed.txt and the manual pages for details
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

Todd

Mark Street wrote:

>Sorry, I posted a response on your other thread regarding this issue and it 
>was overlooked.
>
>What is your setting for socket options in smb.conf?
>
>socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>
>NOTE - it is a very good idea to make a backup of smb.conf BEFORE you use SWAT 
>to configure samba.
>
>-------------------------------
>my old post
>
>I would look into tuning samba.  I also note in your previous post the
>lack of a machine secret for the Domain.  If you have machines you are
>allowing to join the domain you have to create a machine account on the
>samba server.
>
>The oplock setting looks like it is giving you trouble.  You might
>consider turning it off.  Opportunistic file locking slows Samba considerably.
>
>I have seen issues with this with head to head comparison with NT/XP on
>file serving and certain teams leaving this bottleneck turn on just to
>cripple the Linux/Samba solution. referenced from Linuxtoday a month or so
>back.
>
>Reference Using Samba online at O'Reilly.
>or this one I just pulled up.
>
>http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-optimize.html
>
>
>
>
>On Tuesday 15 July 2003 08:51, Todd Cary wrote:
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>
>>Jeremy -
>>
>>I may have popped open the champagne bottle too early.  After doing
>>whatever RH Linux does during the night, it is running slow again.
>>Restarted Samba; checked the smb.conf for any changes.....an ongoing
>>mystery.
>>
>>And the "slowness" is only in PC - > Linux; not Linux -> PC.  For those
>>with more knowledge about Networks, this most likely is a good clue.
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