Samba speeds

cuban · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 448 Location: Houston, TX

What sort of transfer speeds can I expect from Samba? I have two machines on gigabit and I only get about 5500 kilobytes/s, which is only about 45 megabits. The machines are both connected at gigabit.

TIA,
Daniel
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Taladar · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:26 am Post subject:

That is about the same I get with 100 MBit/s and Samba here (with native windows too). Samba doesn't even max out Fast Ethernet (100 Mbit/s) so Gigabit does not help there I guess.

I get very good transfer rates with scp however

cuban · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 448 Location: Houston, TX

nobspangle · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:35 pm Post subject:

It has a lot to do with your hardware spec. I get up to 9MB/s on 100Mb networks with decent spec servers. I reckon I could hit 20 or 30 on a gigabit network, with proper 64bit PCI buses.

In contrast, I can't get above around 5MB/s from an old pentium2 using ftp or anything.

etnoy · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:43 pm Post subject:

Well, "gigabit" is a bit of a lie on most systems. The PCI bus is the bottleneck, since it is too slow to get the high throughputs from gigabit ethernet.
Keep an eye on PCI Express, though.
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