SAMBA poor performance

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:15 +0100, Jan Litwiński wrote:
> G'day Marco,
> 
> * Marco Maccaferri <macca at maccasoft.com> [100226 19:03] wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've recently noticed an extremely poor performance when trasfering 
> > files from Linux to a Windows XP notebook using samba. The notebook is 
> > using a wireless connection so I initially tought about some 
> > interferences from nearby devices but I can transfer up to 300KB/sec. 
> > from the internet so it isn't the wireless connection.
> > 
> > Transfering from Linux is running at 8-20KB/sec., it wasn't that slow 
> > initially, unfortunately I don't use samba so often to know when it 
> > started to degrade. I tried some suggestions found on the web without 
> > any effect.
> > 
> > I'm still using Fedora 10/x86_64 and can't update in the near future, 
> > samba version is 3.2.15-0.36.
> > 
> > Any suggestion ?
> 
> to global section add this:
> 
> socket options= TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
----
TCP_NODELAY is the default now

the rest of those options were useful for 2.4 kernels but of no impact
on current distributions and I don't understand why people persist on
using them.

Craig


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