SAMBA poor performance

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:55 +0100, Marco Maccaferri 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 ?
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yes, prove it...

Comparing your Internet speeds is not the same thing.

Try transferring a large file via scp or ftp or sftp and comparing that
with the samba connection. (WinSCP is freely available for your Windows
laptop).

I would bet that the speeds are the same samba & scp and that samba is
not at all the issue but this is the surest way to know.

Craig


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