On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:13:43 +0000, Jonathan Christison <jonbon_c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hello and thank for yore help because i need it >can any one tell me why my samba server transfers at speed of 5mb/s and >slower ? this is a ridiculously slow speed as my network run's at >100mps. >i was thinking maby its the way im sharing them with user share instead >of file share. >i have checked the card is a 100mps card and all the other servises run >just as slow i even took of aloada services and it made no difference. >its a 500mhz machine with 32mb or ram wif no gui why is it funing this >slow should i change to a older OS like redhat 7.1 or is FC1 ok??? > >yore help would be greatly appreciated > >- Jonathan Christison I backup my Windows machine to my Samba server every week, transferring about 1.5GB. I got much better speed by looking closely at the values in this line of smb.conf: # 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 If you check the FAQs on samba.org and google around a bit, you'll find some guidance on the two buffer sizes. I found that 8192 worked well with my combination of network (100 Mbps) and hardware. -- Steve
