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Aonoa Guru


Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:45 am Post subject: Samba Troubles, Slow connections |
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Here's the problem: I'm trying to stream video from my samba server to my samba client, both are gentoo machines and the connection is just too slow. When a friend was visiting with his laptop (windows), my gentoo client had slow transfers from those shares as well. By slow I am talking about 10-500KB/sec, when with FTP I get 15-20MB/sec. I have a gigabit network, so that is the speed I should be getting from smb as well. I'm able to play xvids and anything smaller than a DVD, I wouldn't really care about getting the maximum speed as long as I'm able to play DVD's as well. Here is a weird thing I've encountered, if when my client tries to play a DVD through the mounted samba share I do other things (like web browsing) that puts a load on the clients ethernet interface.. samba speeds up somewhat. If I keep doing more things to load the network, like repeating a find search in the mounted samba share, the speed could briefly go all the way up to 2MB/sec. Now how weird is that?
Here's what I've tried: Two different 2.6.11 kernels as well as my current 2.6.12.6 patched with reiser4 and vesafb-tng. I can't try any earlier than 2.6.11 because I formatted my root with a 2.6.11 reiser4 enabled kernel. I've tried both "unstable" and "stable" samba, current version is the latest in portage; samba-3.0.14a-r2. I've tried everything from a very basic smb.conf to the one I have now with a lot of different options in it, none of which have helped in the least. I have both smbfs and cifs compiled as modules, both of them has the same slow speed. I've read people suggest removing the socket options, that had no effect. At some point almost everything from this config wasn't there to start with.
Code: | [global]
interfaces = lo eth0 10.0.0.2/24
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = sir
hosts allow = 10.0.0. 127.
max mux = 100
dns proxy = no
disable netbios = yes
local master = no
ldap ssl = no
server string = Samba Server %v
log file = /var/log/samba3/log.%m
max log size = 50
map to guest = bad user
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
wins support = no
load printers = no
disable spoolss = yes
dead time = 15
getwd cache = yes
wide links = no
read raw = yes
write raw = yes
level2 oplocks = true
oplocks = yes
max xmit = 65535
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/ftp
public = yes
case sensitive = no
writable = yes
browsable = yes
[ftp]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /opt/glftpd/site/incoming
public = yes
case sensitive = no
writable = yes
browsable = yes |
So to sum it up, everything in my network except samba is working flawlessly. Suggestions? I've searched the forums to no avail and I seem to be loosing my morale for further fault-seeking/testing.
EDIT: This is laughable really, with a little bash script I'm looping a 'find' inside the samba mount resulting in fully working DVD streaming. Speeds go from approx. 500KB to 10MB while the script runs at the same time as a DVD is played, when there is no DVD played the script only makes up for about 10-100KB bandwidth usage. Why on earth would samba only reach speeds of 1MB++ when I put just a tiny bit more strain on the network..
EDIT: At least this proves that samba is capable of using enough bandwidth to stream DVD's. I'm still looking for better solution than my hack, of course. Any input regarding this would be appreciated, thanks. |
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Aonoa Guru


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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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Some further testing with a samba server at work revealed that my laptop got a more constant 1MB/sec transfer rate as opposed to around 100-500KB/sec at home. I've almost copied that servers smb.conf which didn't help at all, I really doubt it's a conf problem. I think it's either kernel related or maybe samba compile options or what not. The server at work was a 2.6.10 kernel. I would appreciate input from others who run samba on 2.6.12 kernels, fast?, slow? what's your experiences, do you mount with cifs or smbfs? anyone else using samba with reiser4 filesystems? |
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Janne Pikkarainen Veteran


Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 1143 Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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eonic wrote: | Some further testing with a samba server at work revealed that my laptop got a more constant 1MB/sec transfer rate as opposed to around 100-500KB/sec at home. I've almost copied that servers smb.conf which didn't help at all, I really doubt it's a conf problem. I think it's either kernel related or maybe samba compile options or what not. The server at work was a 2.6.10 kernel. I would appreciate input from others who run samba on 2.6.12 kernels, fast?, slow? what's your experiences, do you mount with cifs or smbfs? anyone else using samba with reiser4 filesystems? |
I use Samba at work. The Gentoo server (with kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 at the moment, though it's been running with 2.6.x from 2.6.6 or so... before that it was 2.4.x) is connected to a gigabit network and a Windows box downloads stuff from the server. Speed is around 30 megabytes per second, and the limiting factor seems to be Windows-side, it's DLT box to be more precise. I haven't altered any network related Samba settings. _________________ Yes, I'm the man. Now it's your turn to decide if I meant "Yes, I'm the male." or "Yes, I am the Unix Manual Page.". |
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Aonoa Guru


Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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What about a linux client connecting to that server to download stuff? same speeds, same kernel? what about your samba versions and USE flags? Something on either my client or server, maybe even both is weird. |
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Janne Pikkarainen Veteran


Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 1143 Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:22 am Post subject: |
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Works well in both directions.
[ebuild R ] net-fs/samba-3.0.14a-r2 +acl -cups -doc -kerberos -ldap -libclamav +mysql -oav +pam -postgres +python -quotas +readline (-selinux) -winbind -xml -xml2 17 kB _________________ Yes, I'm the man. Now it's your turn to decide if I meant "Yes, I'm the male." or "Yes, I am the Unix Manual Page.". |
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Aonoa Guru


Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it's reiser4's fault, though I fail to see how that could have anything to do with it.. I bet you're not using reiser4 on any of those machines? Is there even anyone at all out there using samba and reiser4? |
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Janne Pikkarainen Veteran


Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 1143 Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using ReiserFS v3. I don't know how v4 could affect Samba's performance, at least that much.
Is there some kind of router box at your home between the boxes (yes there is, I'd guess)? Maybe that is the bad guy of this story? Have you tried to connect your laptop directly to your server? _________________ Yes, I'm the man. Now it's your turn to decide if I meant "Yes, I'm the male." or "Yes, I am the Unix Manual Page.". |
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Aonoa Guru


Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Server and client are on the same subnet, no routing between them. Along with that, ftp connections get speeds in the order of 10-20 megabytes per second. I could try and find a method for playing a dvd directly without mounting the samba share first, just to see if there is a difference. |
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Aonoa Guru


Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Now I've tried using the samba server with a Windows box and it achieved speeds of up to 8 Megabytes per second. Seems like there is something wrong with both the linux client and samba server since the speed should have been around 20 Megabytes per second. This test was still done with the reiser4 filesystem on the samba server, I will try to transfer files from a different filesystem. I really can't pin the problem to anything else other than reiser4, it's the only thing that stands out.. :/ well, we'll see soon enough. |
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hysteresis n00b

Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 9
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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eonic wrote: | . This test was still done with the reiser4 filesystem on the samba server, I will try to transfer files from a different filesystem. |
Just how are you accessing the share? Are you using smbmount? mount? Through a GUI or on a commandline?
What ethernet driver are you using? Since the connection is going only one way -- from the server to the client -- there could be something wrong with the ethernet drivers.
I have encountered a problem when use the smbmount command. My experience is that this command only works with windows shares and not from linux to linux. The mount command seems to work better.
Code: | mount -t cifs //smbserver/user /mnt/shares -o username=user,password=passwd |
Do NOT use -t smbfs when mounting a linux share on a linux machine.
I also found that the the there are some things you need to do in smb.conf
I have not been able to get the mount to recognize symlinks so I turned off
Code: | unix extensions = no |
This recognizes every link as a hard link.
look at your socket options.
Code: | socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 |
You might want to increase the size of the buffers. It maybe that the acknowledgements from the client side are slowing things down. . Also, set
Code: | oplocks = true
Read size =16384 |
Try looking at your MTU setting on your ifconfig. YOU may be sending smaller chunks.
try
Set
Code: | strict locking = no
log level = 1
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Then try the read raw setting as yes or no and see which one works best.
I would be interested in hearing if there is any improvement with any of these settings. Also, With what and how are you measuring throughput? |
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Aonoa Guru


Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 589
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry for the delayed response, I have been very busy. However, I have been using "mount -t cifs..." just as in your example. As for your suggestions about the smb.conf options, I'll have to try them when I get home later today. I have used bwm-ng, a commandline utility to measure bandwidth throughput. As well as watching dvd's play very badly from a samba share, suggesting an extremely crap throughput. |
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NightMonkey Guru


Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 351 Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:39 am Post subject: |
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Ah, CIFS doubled my sluggish transfer performance found with SMBFS. Thanks for the info!  _________________
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marjue n00b

Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 18
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:19 am Post subject: |
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Hi
I have an equel problem. Ich have Samba 3 on my Gentoo box for a long time. I use it with WinXP clients.
Now i noticed that transfers from the server are very slow (1MBit). Copying to the Server is OK. With FTP i reach 10MB/s.
Now the effect: I run a download with 1MB/s. While downloading i reload the shorewall. During the reload the speed of the download gets much faster. But the shorewall is not the bad guy. When i run the system without any firewall rules the download is slow too.
Now i put the "oplock=no" parameter in my global section and speed went up to ~2-3MB/s. But i thought this parameter has to be on "yes" for better performance ?
I trieed all the smb parameters which are known for better performance but nothing happened. |
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maudib n00b

Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 50
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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well..i can just confirm the problems...
having mounted samba shares (from a gentoo server) on a gentoo client using cifs, the speed maxes at 8-12Mb/s.
using ftp or nfs i get 25-35Mb/s. also using smbclient is around 30Mb/s.
have tried 3different NICs, netgear and dlink with different drivers but still no good. |
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marquischan Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 108
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:51 am Post subject: |
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I am facing the same problem also
my lan card is Realtek 8139
before, tried LevelOne
The speed in FTP is normal but POOR in Samba |
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Gegolath n00b


Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 10
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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jepp, same Problem here.
Just came out all of the sudden, at least so it seems to me because i don't remember to reconfigured or installed something new or things like that.
I did several hours of testing and came to these results:
- Downloading/Streaming from the Server is slow like an old sleepy tortoise
- Anything except Samba works just fine (FTP, HTTP, NFS ..and so on)
- Linux or Windows as Client doesn't make any difference
- Copying from the Client TO the Server works fine and with full speed
- Taking the Server under Load (Network and/or CPU) moves the bandwith of the download up significant (doing an emerge, or running a find script or something similar...if you suspend the process...bandwith goes down..if you start it again bandwith goes up again...freaking weird?!)
- Recompiling Samba didn't work
- Tried Samba Version 3.0.14a and 3.0.20b with no difference at all
- Tried Kernel 2.6.12-r6 and 2.6.14-r5 with no difference at all
- Doesn't seem to be any Samba configuration behavior
Network Cards are:
Realtek 8169 (Server)
Marvel Yukon/Syskonnect (Client)
Both the Client (runs Windows also) and the Server run on Gentoo
And thats my Samba config, but i think this mysterium is not an config failure
Code: |
[global]
hosts allow = 127.0.0.1 10.12.6.0/24 10.8.0.0/24
hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
#use sendfile = no
#security = share
workgroup = OLYMP.NET
guest account = gegolath
server string = Phoenix Samba Server %v
interfaces = 10.12.6.1/24
smb passwd file = /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb
passdb backend = tdbsam
client NTLMv2 auth = Yes
client lanman auth = No
client plaintext auth = No
#log level = 1 passdb:1 auth:1
log level = 1
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
name resolve order = host lmhosts bcast
#time server = Yes
read raw = yes
write raw = yes
getwd cache = yes
max xmit = 65535
oplocks = yes
socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
strict sync = No
load printers = No
dns proxy = No
homedir map =
create mask = 0744
directory mask = 0775
#ClamAV mit Samba verwenden
#vfs object = vscan-clamav recycle
#vscan-clamav: config-file = /etc/samba/vscan-clamav.conf
time server = Yes
[Filme]
comment = Film Directory
path = /opt/data2/Filme
invalid users = root
valid users = gegolath, cassandra, +users, +smbroot
read only = No
[Data]
comment = Fileserver Raid Daten Array
path = /opt/data
#guest ok = Yes
veto files = /postgres/
veto files = /Squidcache/
admin users = gegolath
invalid users = root
read only = No
[Data3]
comment = Fileserver Entertainment and Data Drive
path = /opt/data3
invalid users = root
read only = No
[Data2]
comment = Fileserver Video Media Drive
path = /opt/data2
invalid users = root
read only = No
[Ebooks]
comment = Fileserver Ebooks
path = /opt/data/Ebooks
invalid users = root
read only = No
[Mp3s]
comment = Fileserver Audio Files
path = /opt/data/Audio
invalid users = root
read only = No
#[printer]
# path = /dev/null
# browseable = No
# available = No
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I hope somebody has the luck and the wisdom to reveal this enigma
At the moment I'am trying to recompile my glibc and then samba again...maybe this does the trick...i will let you folks know if it does change anything. |
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dspgen Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 103
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:29 am Post subject: |
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Same issue. Here are my test results
3 computers:
"S1" = Windows 2000 server
"C1" = 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 (k8 cpu)
"C2" = 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 (i686 cpu)
speed tests: (589MB file, determined by "date && copy x && date")
"C1" (NFS) from "C2" gets 15MB/s
"C1" (smbclient) from "C2" gets 27MB/s
"C1" (mount -smbfs) from "C2" gets 12MB/s
"C1" (smbclient) from "S1" gets 24MB/s
"C1" (mount -smbfs) from "S1" gets 0.185MB/s
"C2" (smbclinet) from "S1" gets 21MB/s
"C2" (mount -smbfs) from "S1" gets 9MB/s
"C1" (mount -smbfs) to "S1" gets 13MB/s
clearly there is something special about C1
edit:
Tried using the kernel from "C2" on "C1", increased the speed to ~1MB/s.
switched to cifs:
"C1" (mount -cifs) from "S1" gets 13MB/s |
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dspgen Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 103
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Now I have a problem with a WinXP client.
gentoo has DVD vob files on its hard disk. when copying the vob files to another drive on that computer it get 30-40MB/s.
watching this DVD (via samba) it plays fine for a while. copying the a vob files get like 16MB/s.
After some time (2-10 hours after boot), the network connection slows to 10-300KB/s.
Reboot, and it works fine for a while again.
when it is going slow, I can smbclient to the WinXP and copy from WinXP at 5.5MB/s.
after rebooting (when it is going fast), smbclient to the WinXP and copy from WinXP gets 24MB/s
on the WinXP, copying a vob from the gentoo gets 19MB/s
Code: | ifconfig eth0 down && sleep 30 && ifconfig eth0 up |
does not fix the problem. rebooting does.
Anyone have any ideas or other tests, logs, etc to look at? |
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dspgen Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 103
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: |
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No one? no ideas on why network shares get slow after a while? please? |
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Merlin-TC l33t


Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Any news here? I am having exactly the same problem. FTP transfers and all other network related things work fine just samba transfers FROM the server to a client are very slow ~1mb/s while uploading to the server is fine. |
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dspgen Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 103
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I've had no problems since I replaced my network switch & cables (doh! I was using cat-5 with a gigabit switch - I replaced all my cables with new cat-6's) - strange that only samba had problems with the old switch/cables. |
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Merlin-TC l33t


Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Well I am only running a 100mbit network but I only get max 1mb/s when downloading from the server. I have another switch so I might give that a try. |
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andrewwalker27 l33t


Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 660
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Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Same problem here, I'm only managing 300K/Bs which is rather painful when you're trying to transfer a video file across! I'm using ~x86_64 |
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Dgege n00b

Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 59
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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I'm having exactly the same problem ! Everything works but samba. From client to server, I get good speeds. But from server to client, it's slooooooooooooow. I tried other distros (debian, suse) and I get the same problem ! I don't get it. I don't have much time right now, i'm finishing my masters. Once it's done, I'll trouble shoot, hopefully getting to the bottom of it !
Georges. |
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Dgege n00b

Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 59
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Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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ok guys, I think I narrowed down the problem to the network card. To everyone who is experience this problem, what network card module are you using ? I'm using via-rhine, which I suspect is the culprit.
Dgege. |
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