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386924 2005-09-08 11:34:00 got samba set up on my gentoo machine
but file transfer between my gentoo machine 500mhz and my winxp machine 1.7ghz is very slow

normally i get around 600Kb/s
some rare ocassions it goes to nearly 1000
but sometimes it only goes at 300Kb/s which is rather painfully slow

the network is set up on full-deplux at 100mbits/s

when the gentoo machine was running winxp
transfer can go around 1000kb/s

also i remember a long time ago when i put mandrake 9 on the 500mhz machine
it nearly went to 4mb/s


there's so many things that can make samba slow..
i'm hopeing if someone have similar setup to me and wonder if they experience the same problem
heni72847 (1166)
386925 2005-09-09 11:26:00 I don't use samba anymore, but this article looks promising: Samba Performance Tuning (www.oreilly.com) Jen (38)
386926 2005-09-10 02:35:00 It's always a good idea to look at what is happening on the wire. tcpdump running in a terminal session will tell you. You might be surprised at the chatter going on, even when you aren't doing anything on the network. Graham L (2)
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